The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 129
‘Saints!--what a magnificent lining!
Who acts: Saints · What happens: lining
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 (Saints), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Saints | punct |
| 2 | Saints | saint | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Saints | punct |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 lining | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 lining | nsubj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lining | det |
| 7 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lining | amod |
| 8 | lining | lining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Saints | conj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Saints | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lining | Saints and a magnificent lining | tree rules |
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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