The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 160

And as one more proof of the fascination of the whole Rosanella, I may tell you that even the defeated Surcantine sent her a wedding gift, and was present at the ceremony which took place as soon as the guests could arrive.

Who acts: I, defeated Surcantine, ceremony, guests · What happens: tell, defeat, send, be, take, arrive · To what, where: you, wedding gift, ROSANELLA, ceremony, place, fascination · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, defeated Surcantine, ceremony, guests), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	16 tell	cc
2	as	as	ADP	_	5 proof	case
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 proof	nummod
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 proof	amod
5	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tell	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 fascination	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fascination	det
8	fascination	fascination	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 proof	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 Rosanella	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Rosanella	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Rosanella	amod
12	Rosanella	Rosanella	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 fascination	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 proof	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 tell	nsubj
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	aux
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 sent	mark
19	even	even	ADV	_	22 Surcantine	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Surcantine	det
21	defeated	defeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 Surcantine	amod
22	Surcantine	Surcantine	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 sent	nsubj
23	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	ccomp
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sent	obj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 gift	det
26	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gift	compound
27	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sent	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 present	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 present	cc
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 present	cop
31	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tell	conj
32	at	at	ADP	_	34 ceremony	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 ceremony	det
34	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 present	obl
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 took	nsubj
36	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 ceremony	acl:relcl
37	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 took	obj
38	as	as	ADV	_	39 soon	advmod
39	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 took	advmod
40	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 arrive	mark
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 guests	det
42	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 arrive	nsubj
43	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 arrive	aux
44	arrive	arrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 soon	advcl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	may	I		you		as one more proof of the fascination of the whole Rosanella	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	defeat	participle						tree rules
3	send	past	the defeated Surcantine	a wedding gift	ROSANELLA			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination gift=Theme
4	is	past	I not said here			the ceremony	present property	tree rules
5	take	past	the ceremony	place			soon property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
6	arrive	could	the guests					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	proof			the fascination of the whole Rosanella				nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient
8	fascinate			the whole Rosanella				nom fascination «state transitive»: of=patient

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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