The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 7
And the Fairy took a great delight in their innocent enjoyment of the cakes and sweetmeats she gave them nearly every day.
Who acts: Fairy, Sylvain · What happens: take, give, enjoy · To what, where: great delight, innocent enjoyment, cakes, 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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 took | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fairy | det |
| 3 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 delight | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 delight | amod |
| 7 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 enjoyment | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 enjoyment | nmod:poss |
| 10 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 enjoyment | amod |
| 11 | enjoyment | enjoyment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 cakes | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cakes | det |
| 14 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 enjoyment | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sweetmeats | cc |
| 16 | sweetmeats | sweetmeat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cakes | conj |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | nsubj |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 cakes | acl:relcl |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | iobj |
| 20 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 22 day | advmod |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 day | det |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Fairy | a great delight | Sylvain's innocent enjoyment of the cakes and sweetmeats | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent delight=Value in enjoyment=Location | |||
| 2 | give | past | Fairy | the cakes and sweetmeats not said here | Sylvain | day | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||
| 3 | enjoy | Sylvain | the cakes and sweetmeats | nom enjoyment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent 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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