The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 18

Sylvain and Jocosa willingly undertook this service, and indeed felt that it was but a very small thing in return for all that the fairy had given and promised to them.

Who acts: Sylvain, service · What happens: undertake, feel, be, give, promise · To what, where: service, small thing, return, fairy, Sylvain

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 (Sylvain, service), 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	Sylvain	Sylvain	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 undertook	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Jocosa	cc
3	Jocosa	Jocosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Sylvain	conj
4	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	5 undertook	advmod
5	undertook	undertake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 service	det
7	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 undertook	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 felt	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 felt	cc
10	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	11 felt	advmod
11	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 undertook	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 thing	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 thing	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 thing	cop
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 thing	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 thing	det
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 small	advmod
18	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 thing	amod
19	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 felt	advcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 return	case
21	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 thing	nmod
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 given	mark
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 given	det:predet
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 given	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 fairy	det
26	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 given	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 given	aux
28	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 felt	advcl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 promised	cc
30	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 given	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 promised	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 undertook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	undertake	past	Sylvain and Jocosa	this service			willingly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Eventuality
2	feel	past	Sylvain and Jocosa not said here				indeed property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is a	past	service	a small thing		return		tree rules
4	give	past · perfect · passive		the fairy				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	promise speech: promise	participle			Sylvain			vn promise-37.13 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient

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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