The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 10
However, the money he obtained in this way enabled him to buy the Queen her flock of sheep, as well as many of the other things which go to make life pleasant, so that they never once regretted their lost kingdom.
Who acts: money, Fish, other things, King · What happens: obtain, enable, buy, go, make, regret · To what, where: money, way, Fish, flock, Queen, life
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (money, Fish, other things, King), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 10 enabled | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 money | det |
| 4 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 enabled | nsubj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 obtained | nsubj |
| 6 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 money | acl:relcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 way | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 way | det |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 obtained | obl |
| 10 | enabled | enable | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 enabled | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 buy | mark |
| 13 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 enabled | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Queen | det |
| 15 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 buy | obj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 flock | nmod:poss |
| 17 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 buy | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 sheep | case |
| 19 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 flock | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 many | punct |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 24 many | cc |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 as | fixed |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 as | fixed |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 enabled | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 things | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 things | det |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 things | amod |
| 28 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 many | nmod |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 go | nsubj |
| 30 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 things | acl:relcl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 make | mark |
| 32 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 go | xcomp |
| 33 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 make | obj |
| 34 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 make | xcomp |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 regretted | punct |
| 36 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 41 regretted | mark |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 so | fixed |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 regretted | nsubj |
| 39 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 40 once | advmod |
| 40 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 41 regretted | advmod |
| 41 | regretted | regret | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 enabled | conj |
| 42 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 43 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 kingdom | amod |
| 44 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 regretted | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 enabled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obtain | past | money | the money not said here | this way | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | |||
| 2 | enable | past | the money | Fish | however property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | buy | to-infinitive | Fish not said here | Queen's flock of sheep | the Queen | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent queen=Beneficiary flock=Theme | |||
| 4 | go | present | the other things | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | the other things not said here | life | pleasant property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset life=Product | |||
| 6 | regret | past | King | King's lost kingdom | once property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kingdom=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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