The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 85

For this was a magic mirror, in which people saw themselves just as they wished to appear, and pilgrims came to it from the four corners of the world.

Who acts: this, people, pilgrims · What happens: be, see, wish, appear, come · To what, where: people, mirror, four corners

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (this, people, pilgrims), 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	For	for	ADP	_	6 mirror	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 mirror	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mirror	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mirror	det
5	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mirror	amod
6	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mirror	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 saw	obl
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 saw	obj
13	just	just	ADV	_	16 wished	advmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 wished	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wished	nsubj
16	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 saw	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 appear	mark
18	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wished	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 came	cc
21	pilgrims	pilgrim	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 saw	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 came	obl
25	from	from	ADP	_	28 corners	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 corners	det
27	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 corners	nummod
28	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 came	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 world	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 world	det
31	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 corners	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	this				for a magic mirror	tree rules
2	see	past	people	people				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus
3	wish	past	people					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	appear not said to happen	to-infinitive	people not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	past	pilgrims		mirror	the four corners of the world		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to it=Initial_Location from corner=Destination

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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