The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 157
Celia and Prince Darling threw themselves at the Fairy’s feet, and the Prince was never tired of thanking her for her kindness.
Who acts: Celia, Prince · What happens: throw, not be, thank · To what, where: windows, feet, Celia
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 (Celia, Prince), 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 | Celia | Celia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Darling | cc |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Darling | compound |
| 4 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Celia | conj |
| 5 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 threw | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 feet | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Fairy | det |
| 9 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 feet | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Fairy | case |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 threw | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tired | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tired | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Prince | det |
| 15 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 tired | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 tired | cop |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 tired | advmod |
| 18 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 threw | parataxis |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 thanking | mark |
| 20 | thanking | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 tired | advcl |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 thanking | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 kindness | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 24 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 thanking | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | Celia and Prince Darling | windows = window | the Fairy's feet | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme at foot=Destination | |||
| 2 | not is | past | the Prince | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | thank speech: thank | gerund | the Prince not said here | Celia | for Celia's kindness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme for kindness=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 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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