The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 39
Once upon a time a Fairy, who had somehow or other got into mischief, was condemned by the High Court of Fairyland to live for several years under the form of some creature, and at the moment of resuming her natural appearance once again to make the fortune of two men.
Who acts: Fairy, High Court · What happens: have, get, condemn, live, resume, make · To what, where: mischief, form, natural appearance, fortune, creature
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, High Court), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | root | root |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Fairy | det |
| 6 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Fairy | acl:relcl |
| 10 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 13 got | advmod |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 got | cc |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 got | amod |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 had | xcomp |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 mischief | case |
| 15 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 condemned | punct |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 condemned | aux:pass |
| 18 | condemned | condemn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 had | conj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 Court | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Court | det |
| 21 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Court | amod |
| 22 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 condemned | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Fairyland | case |
| 24 | Fairyland | Fairyland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Court | nmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 live | mark |
| 26 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 condemned | advcl |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 years | case |
| 28 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 years | amod |
| 29 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 live | obl |
| 30 | under | under | ADP | _ | 32 form | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 form | det |
| 32 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 live | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 creature | case |
| 34 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 creature | det |
| 35 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 form | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 resuming | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 resuming | cc |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 moment | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 moment | det |
| 40 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 resuming | obl |
| 41 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 42 resuming | mark |
| 42 | resuming | resume | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 condemned | advcl |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 44 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 appearance | amod |
| 45 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 resuming | obj |
| 46 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 47 again | advmod |
| 47 | again | again | ADV | _ | 42 resuming | advmod |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 make | mark |
| 49 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 resuming | advcl |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 fortune | det |
| 51 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 make | obj |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 men | case |
| 53 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 54 men | nummod |
| 54 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 fortune | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Once | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | a Fairy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get | participle | a Fairy not said here | mischief | somehow property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into mischief=Destination | |||
| 3 | condemn | past · passive | the High Court of Fairyland | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | live | to-infinitive | the High Court of Fairyland not said here | the form of some creature | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under form=Location | |||
| 5 | resume | gerund | the High Court of Fairyland not said here | Fairy's natural appearance | again; moment | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | make | to-infinitive | the High Court of Fairyland not said here | the fortune of two men | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fortune=Product | ||||
| 7 | form | some creature | nom form «communication 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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