The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 97

So they caused Placida to seem to have a violent fever, and Vivien to languish and grow dull, and made each of them very uneasy about the other, and then, finding a moment when they were apart, the Fairy Mirlifiche suddenly appeared to Placida, and said--

Who acts: Fairies, Placida, Vivien, Fairy Mirlifiche · What happens: cause, seem, have, languish, grow, make · To what, where: Placida, violent fever, each · 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, Placida, Vivien, Fairy Mirlifiche), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 caused	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 caused	nsubj
3	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Placida	Placida	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 caused	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 seem	mark
6	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 caused	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 have	mark
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 seem	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fever	det
10	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fever	amod
11	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 languish	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 languish	cc
14	Vivien	Vivien	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 languish	nsubj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 languish	mark
16	languish	languish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 caused	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 grow	cc
18	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 languish	conj
19	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grow	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 made	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 made	cc
22	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 caused	conj
23	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	22 made	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 each	nmod
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 uneasy	advmod
27	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 made	xcomp
28	about	about	ADP	_	30 other	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 other	det
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 uneasy	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 finding	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 finding	cc
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 finding	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 finding	punct
35	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 made	advcl
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 moment	det
37	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 finding	obj
38	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	41 apart	advmod
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 apart	nsubj
40	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 apart	cop
41	apart	apart	ADV	_	35 finding	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 appeared	punct
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 Mirlifiche	det
44	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 Mirlifiche	compound
45	Mirlifiche	Mirlifiche	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 appeared	nsubj
46	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	47 appeared	advmod
47	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 apart	parataxis
48	to	to	ADP	_	49 Placida	case
49	Placida	Placida	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 appeared	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 said	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 said	cc
52	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 caused	conj
53	--	--	PUNCT	_	52 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	cause	past	Fairies = fairy	Placida				tree rules
2	seem	to-infinitive	Placida not said here					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	have	to-infinitive	Placida not said here	a violent fever				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fever=Patient
4	languish	to-infinitive	Vivien					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	grow	infinitive	Vivien not said here				dull property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	make	past	Fairies = fairy not said here	each			uneasy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset each=Product
7	find	gerund	Fairies = fairy not said here			then; moment		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
8	is	past	Fairies = fairy				apart property	tree rules
9	appear	past	the Fairy Mirlifiche		Placida		suddenly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	say speech: assert	past	Fairies = fairy not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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