The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 96
But now the Fairies who had been watching all these proceedings with interest, thought it was time to interfere, and ascertain by further trials if this improvement was likely to continue, and if they really loved one another.
Who acts: Fairies, watching, cousin, improvement · What happens: watch, think, be, interfere, ascertain, continue · To what, where: proceedings, time, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairies, watching, cousin, improvement), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 watching | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 watching | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Fairies | det |
| 4 | Fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 watching | nsubj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 watching | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 watching | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 watching | aux |
| 8 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 thought | csubj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 proceedings | det:predet |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 proceedings | det |
| 11 | proceedings | proceedings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 8 watching | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 interest | case |
| 13 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 watching | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 watching | punct |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 time | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 time | cop |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thought | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 interfere | mark |
| 20 | interfere | interfere | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 time | acl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ascertain | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ascertain | cc |
| 23 | ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 thought | parataxis |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 trials | case |
| 25 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 trials | amod |
| 26 | trials | trial | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 ascertain | obl |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 likely | mark |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 improvement | det |
| 29 | improvement | improvement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 likely | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 likely | cop |
| 31 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 ascertain | advcl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 continue | mark |
| 33 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 likely | xcomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 loved | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 loved | cc |
| 36 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 39 loved | mark |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 loved | nsubj |
| 38 | really | really | ADV | _ | 39 loved | advmod |
| 39 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 thought | parataxis |
| 40 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 loved | obj |
| 41 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 40 one | fixed |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past · perfect · progressive | the Fairies | all proceedings | now | with interest | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proceedings=Theme | ||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | watching | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | cousin | time | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | interfere | to-infinitive | watching not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | ascertain | present | by further trials | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | this improvement | likely property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | continue | to-infinitive | this improvement not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | love a condition, not said to happen | past | Fairies = fairy | one | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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