The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 12

This she was all the more inclined to do as she loved children, and little Prince Featherhead, who never cried and grew prettier day by day, quite won her heart.

Who acts: This, Fairy, little Prince Featherhead · What happens: be, do, love, not cry, grow, win · To what, where: children, heart

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 (This, Fairy, little Prince Featherhead), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 inclined	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 inclined	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 inclined	cop
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 inclined	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 inclined	det
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 inclined	advmod
7	inclined	inclined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 inclined	xcomp
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 loved	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 loved	nsubj
12	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 do	advcl
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 loved	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Featherhead	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 Featherhead	cc
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Featherhead	amod
17	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Featherhead	compound
18	Featherhead	featherhead	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 inclined	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cried	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 cried	nsubj
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 cried	advmod
22	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 Featherhead	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 grew	cc
24	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 cried	conj
25	prettier	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 day	amod
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grew	obl:unmarked
27	by	by	ADP	_	28 day	case
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grew	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 won	punct
30	quite	quite	ADV	_	31 won	advmod
31	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 cried	conj
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 heart	nmod:poss
33	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 won	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 inclined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	This			inclined property	tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	This not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	love	past	Fairy	children			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
4	not cry speech: express	past	little Prince Featherhead				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	grow	past	little Prince Featherhead not said here		day		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	win	past	little Prince Featherhead not said here	Fairy's heart			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality

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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