The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 158
Celia was delighted to hear how sorry he was for all his past follies and misdeeds, and promised to love him as long as she lived.
Who acts: Celia, prince · What happens: be, hear, promise, love, live · To what, where: sorry, prince
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 | 3 delighted | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 delighted | cop |
| 3 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 hear | mark |
| 5 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 delighted | advcl |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 sorry | advmod |
| 7 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hear | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 follies | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 follies | cop |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 follies | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 follies | det:predet |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 follies | nmod:poss |
| 13 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 follies | amod |
| 14 | follies | folly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sorry | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 misdeeds | cc |
| 16 | misdeeds | misdeed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 follies | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 promised | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 promised | cc |
| 19 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 delighted | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 love | mark |
| 21 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 promised | xcomp |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 love | obj |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 long | advmod |
| 24 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 love | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 lived | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 lived | nsubj |
| 27 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 long | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Celia | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | Celia not said here | sorry | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sorry=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | prince | for prince's past follies and misdeeds | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | promise speech: promise | past | Celia not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | love not said to happen | to-infinitive | Celia not said here | prince | long property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | live | past | Celia | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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