The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 10

But when she spoke to them sweetly, and told them how she had always loved them, and that it was she who had given them all the pretty things which it had so surprised them to find, they thanked her gratefully, and took pleasure in answering the questions she put to them.

Who acts: Fairy, garland, Sylvain · What happens: speak, tell, love, give, have, find · To what, where: Sylvain, garland, pretty things, Fairy, pleasure, questions · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, garland, Sylvain), 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	_	10 told	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 spoke	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spoke	nsubj
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 told	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spoke	obl
7	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	4 spoke	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 loved	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 loved	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 loved	aux
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 loved	advmod
16	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 told	ccomp
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 loved	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 given	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 given	cc
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 given	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 given	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 given	aux:pass
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 given	nsubj
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 given	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 given	aux
26	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 told	parataxis
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 given	obj
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 things	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 things	det
30	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 things	amod
31	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 given	obl
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 had	obj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 had	nsubj
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 things	acl:relcl
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 surprised	advmod
36	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 had	xcomp
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 surprised	nsubj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 find	mark
39	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 surprised	advcl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 thanked	punct
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 thanked	nsubj
42	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 told	conj
43	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 thanked	obj
44	gratefully	gratefully	ADV	_	42 thanked	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 took	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 took	cc
47	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 told	conj
48	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 took	obj
49	in	in	SCONJ	_	50 answering	mark
50	answering	answer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 took	advcl
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 questions	det
52	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 answering	obj
53	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 put	nsubj
54	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 questions	acl:relcl
55	to	to	ADP	_	56 them	case
56	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 put	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	Fairy		Sylvain	sweetly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past			Sylvain		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	love	past · perfect	Fairy	Sylvain		always property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
4	give	past · perfect · passive		garland		all pretty things obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient they=Theme
5	have	past	garland	all pretty things		surprised property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
6	find	to-infinitive	garland not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
7	thank speech: thank	past	Sylvain		Fairy	gratefully property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
8	take	past		pleasure			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Theme
9	answer speech: assert	gerund		the questions			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality
10	put	past	Fairy	the questions not said here	Sylvain		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Goal

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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