The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 6

At first she showed her interest by leaving in their favourite haunts many little gifts such as they delighted to offer one to the other, for they loved each other so much that their first thought was always, ‘What will Jocosa like?’ or, ‘What will please Sylvain?’

Who acts: Fairy, Sylvain, first thought · What happens: show, leave, delight, offer, love, be · To what, where: interest, favourite haunts, one, other, each, 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 (Fairy, Sylvain, first thought), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 showed	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 showed	nsubj
4	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 interest	nmod:poss
6	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 showed	obj
7	by	by	SCONJ	_	8 leaving	mark
8	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 showed	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 haunts	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 haunts	nmod:poss
11	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 haunts	amod
12	haunts	haunt	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 leaving	obl
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 gifts	amod
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 gifts	amod
15	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 haunts	appos
16	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 gifts	amod
17	as	as	ADP	_	16 such	fixed
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 delighted	nsubj
19	delighted	delight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 such	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 offer	mark
21	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 delighted	advcl
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 offer	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 other	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 other	det
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 one	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 loved	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 loved	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 loved	nsubj
29	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 showed	parataxis
30	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	29 loved	obj
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 each	fixed
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 much	advmod
33	much	much	ADV	_	29 loved	advmod
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 always	mark
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 thought	nmod:poss
36	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	37 thought	amod
37	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 always	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 always	cop
39	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	33 much	advcl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 Jocosa	punct
41	‘	'	PUNCT	_	44 Jocosa	punct
42	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	44 Jocosa	nsubj
43	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 Jocosa	aux
44	Jocosa	Jocosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 loved	obl
45	like	like	ADP	_	29 loved	obl
46	?	?	PUNCT	_	29 loved	punct
47	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 loved	punct
48	or	or	CCONJ	_	53 please	cc
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 or	punct
50	‘	'	PUNCT	_	53 please	punct
51	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	53 please	obj
52	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 please	aux
53	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 showed	conj
54	Sylvain	Sylvain	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 please	obj
55	?	?	PUNCT	_	54 Sylvain	punct
56	’	'	PUNCT	_	53 please	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	show	past	Fairy	Fairy's interest		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent interest=Recipient
2	leave	gerund	Fairy not said here		in Sylvain's favourite haunts result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in haunt=Result
3	delight	past	Sylvain			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	offer	to-infinitive	Sylvain not said here	one	to the other goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent one=Theme to other=Goal
5	love	past	Sylvain	each	Jocosa obl	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus
6	is	past	Sylvain's first thought		always property	tree rules
7	please	future	Fairy not said here	Sylvain		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus what=Experiencer sylvain=Result
8	interest		Fairy			nom interest «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
9	think		Sylvain			nom thought «cognition transitive»: 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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