The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 65

‘I have told you this story, my dear Sylvain and Jocosa,’ added the Fairy, ‘to prove to you that this little cottage and all that belongs to it is a gift more likely to bring you happiness and contentment than many things that would at first seem grander and more desirable.

Who acts: I, dear Sylvain, that, little cottage · What happens: tell, add, prove, belong, be, bring · To what, where: story, you, Fairy, cottage, gift, happiness · 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 (I, dear Sylvain, that, little cottage), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 added	advcl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 story	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 Sylvain	nmod:poss
10	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Sylvain	amod
11	Sylvain	Sylvain	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 added	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Jocosa	cc
13	Jocosa	Jocosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Sylvain	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Sylvain	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 Sylvain	punct
16	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Fairy	det
18	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 added	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 prove	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 prove	punct
21	to	to	PART	_	22 prove	mark
22	prove	prove	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 added	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 you	case
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 prove	obl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 gift	mark
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 cottage	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 cottage	amod
28	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 gift	nsubj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 belongs	cc
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 belongs	det:predet
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 belongs	nsubj
32	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 cottage	conj
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 belongs	obl
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 gift	cop
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 gift	det
37	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 prove	xcomp
38	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	39 likely	advmod
39	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 prove	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 bring	mark
41	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 likely	xcomp
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 bring	obj
43	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 bring	obj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 contentment	cc
45	contentment	contentment	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 happiness	conj
46	than	than	ADP	_	48 things	case
47	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 things	amod
48	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 happiness	nmod
49	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 seem	obj
50	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 seem	aux
51	at	at	ADP	_	52 first	case
52	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	53 seem	advmod
53	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 things	acl:relcl
54	grander	grand	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	53 seem	xcomp
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 desirable	cc
56	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	57 desirable	advmod
57	desirable	desirable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 grander	conj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 added	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · perfect	I	this story	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient story=Topic
2	add speech: assert	past	my dear Sylvain and Jocosa	the Fairy			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Patient
3	prove	to-infinitive			you		vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to you=Experiencer
4	belong	present	that		cottage		vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
5	is a	present	this little cottage	a gift			tree rules
6	bring	to-infinitive		happiness and contentment	you		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination happiness=Theme
7	seem	would		many things		first, grand property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Attribute

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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