The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 40
It was left to her to choose what form she would take, and because she loved yellow she transformed herself into a lovely bird with shining golden feathers such as no one had ever seen before.
Who acts: Fairy · What happens: leave, choose, take, love, transform, shine · To what, where: fortune, Fairy, golden feathers
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), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | aux:pass |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 choose | mark |
| 7 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 left | advcl |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 take | obj |
| 9 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 take | aux |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 take | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 take | aux |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 choose | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 loved | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 loved | cc |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 loved | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 loved | nsubj |
| 17 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | parataxis |
| 18 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 loved | xcomp |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 transformed | nsubj |
| 20 | transformed | transform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 loved | conj |
| 21 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 transformed | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 bird | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 bird | det |
| 24 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 bird | amod |
| 25 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 transformed | obl |
| 26 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 27 shining | mark |
| 27 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 transformed | advcl |
| 28 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 feathers | amod |
| 29 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 shining | obj |
| 30 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 33 one | case |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 such | fixed |
| 32 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 one | det |
| 33 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 seen | obl |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 seen | aux |
| 35 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 36 seen | advmod |
| 36 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 feathers | acl:relcl |
| 37 | before | before | ADV | _ | 36 seen | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | fortune | Fairy | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to she=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | choose | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | take | would · present | Fairy | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 4 | love | past | Fairy | yellow property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | transform | past | Fairy | Fairy | into a lovely bird result | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent herself=Patient into bird=Result | |||
| 6 | shine | gerund | Fairy not said here | golden feathers | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent feather=Theme | ||||
| 7 | see | past · perfect | golden feathers not said here | ever | such no one; before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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