The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 149

Overjoyed to have found her, Prince Darling perched upon her shoulder, trying to express by his caresses how glad he was to see her again, and Celia, surprised and delighted by the tameness of this pretty white dove, stroked it softly, and said, though she never thought of its understanding her:

Who acts: Prince Darling, prince, Celia, dove · What happens: overjoy, find, perch, try, express, see · To what, where: Celia, shoulder, glad, dove · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince Darling, prince, Celia, dove), 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	Overjoyed	overjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	4 found	mark
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 found	aux
4	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Overjoyed	advcl
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 perched	punct
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Darling	compound
8	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 perched	nsubj
9	perched	perch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Overjoyed	parataxis
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 shoulder	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 shoulder	nmod:poss
12	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 perched	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 trying	punct
14	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 perched	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 express	mark
16	express	express	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 trying	xcomp
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 caresses	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 caresses	nmod:poss
19	caresses	caress	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 express	obl
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 glad	advmod
21	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 see	obj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 see	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 see	aux
24	to	to	PART	_	25 see	mark
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 express	advcl
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 see	obj
27	again	again	ADV	_	25 see	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 surprised	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 surprised	cc
30	Celia	Celia	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 surprised	nsubj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 surprised	punct
32	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Overjoyed	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 delighted	cc
34	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 surprised	conj
35	by	by	ADP	_	37 tameness	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 tameness	det
37	tameness	tameness	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 surprised	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	42 dove	case
39	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 dove	nsubj
40	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 dove	amod
41	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 dove	amod
42	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 tameness	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 stroked	punct
44	stroked	stroke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Overjoyed	conj
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 stroked	obj
46	softly	softly	ADV	_	44 stroked	advmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 said	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 said	cc
49	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Overjoyed	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 thought	punct
51	though	though	SCONJ	_	54 thought	mark
52	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 thought	nsubj
53	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	54 thought	advmod
54	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 said	ccomp
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 understanding	case
56	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 understanding	nmod:poss
57	understanding	understanding	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 thought	obl
58	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 understanding	nmod
59	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Overjoyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	overjoy	past						tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive · perfect		Celia				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
3	perch	past	Prince Darling		Celia's shoulder			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon shoulder=Location
4	try	gerund	Prince Darling not said here					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	express not said to happen	to-infinitive	Prince Darling not said here				by prince's caresses	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	see	past	prince	glad		again		tree rules
7	stroke	past		dove			softly property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
8	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	not think speech: other	past	Celia				of dove's understanding trace	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	caress		prince					nom caress «act transitive»: poss=agent
11	understand		dove					nom understanding «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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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