The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 35

Indeed, nothing more could have been thought of, either for Sylvain and Jocosa or for their flocks; and their delight satisfied even the Fairy who had planned it all to please them.

Who acts: delight, Sylvain · What happens: think of, satisfy, plan, please, delight · To what, where: nothing, 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 (delight, 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	8 thought	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 thought	nsubj:pass
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 nothing	amod
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 thought	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 thought	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 thought	aux:pass
8	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	8 thought	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Sylvain	punct
11	either	either	CCONJ	_	13 Sylvain	cc:preconj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 Sylvain	case
13	Sylvain	Sylvain	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 thought	ccomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Jocosa	cc
15	Jocosa	Jocosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Sylvain	conj
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 flocks	cc
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 flocks	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 flocks	nmod:poss
19	flocks	flock	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 Sylvain	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 satisfied	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 satisfied	cc
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 delight	nmod:poss
23	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 satisfied	nsubj
24	satisfied	satisfy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thought	parataxis
25	even	even	ADV	_	27 Fairy	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Fairy	det
27	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 satisfied	obj
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 planned	nsubj:pass
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 planned	aux
30	planned	plan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 Fairy	acl:relcl
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 satisfied	obl
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 it	det
33	to	to	PART	_	34 please	mark
34	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 satisfied	advcl
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 please	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think of speech: other	could · perfect · passive		nothing	indeed property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	satisfy	past	Sylvain's delight	the Fairy	brook obl	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fairy=Experiencer
3	plan	past · perfect · passive		the Fairy		vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
4	please	to-infinitive	Sylvain's delight not said here	Sylvain		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
5	delight		Sylvain			nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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