The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 45

The Fowler thought that this would be a favourable opportunity for offering him the marvellous bird, which he felt certain he would buy the instant he saw it.

Who acts: Fowler, this, favourable opportunity, marvellous bird · What happens: think, be, offer, feel, buy, see · To what, where: favourable opportunity, marvellous bird, Fowler, instant · 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 (Fowler, this, favourable opportunity, marvellous bird), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Fowler	det
2	Fowler	fowler	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 opportunity	mark
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 opportunity	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 opportunity	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 opportunity	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 opportunity	det
9	favourable	favourable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 opportunity	amod
10	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	ccomp
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 offering	mark
12	offering	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 opportunity	acl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 offering	obj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bird	det
15	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bird	amod
16	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 offering	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 felt	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 felt	nsubj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 felt	nsubj
20	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 bird	conj
21	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 felt	xcomp
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 buy	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 buy	aux
24	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 felt	ccomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 instant	det
26	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 buy	obj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 saw	nsubj
28	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 instant	acl:relcl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 saw	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the Fowler				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	would	this	a favourable opportunity			tree rules
3	offer	gerund	a favourable opportunity not said here	the marvellous bird	Fowler		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal bird=Theme
4	feel	past	the marvellous bird			certain property	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	buy	would	Fowler	the instant			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instant=Theme
6	see	past	Fowler	instant			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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