The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 13
She made the acquaintance of the King and the Queen without at first letting them know that she was a fairy, and they soon took a great fancy to her, and even trusted her with the precious Prince, whom she carried off to her palace, where she regaled him with cakes and tarts and every other good thing.
Who acts: Fairy, King · What happens: make, let, know, be, take, trust · To what, where: acquaintance, King, fairy, great fancy, palace, Featherhead · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Fairy, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 acquaintance | det |
| 4 | acquaintance | acquaintance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 King | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 acquaintance | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Queen | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Queen | det |
| 10 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 King | conj |
| 11 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 14 letting | mark |
| 12 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 14 letting | mark |
| 13 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 letting | advmod |
| 14 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 made | advcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 letting | obj |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 letting | xcomp |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 fairy | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fairy | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 fairy | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 fairy | det |
| 21 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 know | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 took | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 took | cc |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 took | nsubj |
| 25 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 took | advmod |
| 26 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | parataxis |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 fancy | det |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 fancy | amod |
| 29 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 took | obj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 her | case |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 took | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 trusted | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 trusted | cc |
| 34 | even | even | ADV | _ | 35 trusted | advmod |
| 35 | trusted | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 took | conj |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 trusted | obj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 Prince | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Prince | det |
| 39 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 Prince | amod |
| 40 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 trusted | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 carried | punct |
| 42 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 carried | obj |
| 43 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 carried | nsubj |
| 44 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 trusted | parataxis |
| 45 | off | off | ADP | _ | 44 carried | compound:prt |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 palace | case |
| 47 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 palace | nmod:poss |
| 48 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 carried | obl |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 regaled | punct |
| 50 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 52 regaled | advmod |
| 51 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 regaled | nsubj |
| 52 | regaled | regale | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 carried | conj |
| 53 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 regaled | obj |
| 54 | with | with | ADP | _ | 55 cakes | case |
| 55 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 regaled | obl |
| 56 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 tarts | cc |
| 57 | tarts | tart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 55 cakes | conj |
| 58 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 62 thing | cc |
| 59 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 62 thing | det |
| 60 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 62 thing | amod |
| 61 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 62 thing | amod |
| 62 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 cakes | conj |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Fairy | the acquaintance of the King and the Queen | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acquaintance=Product | ||||
| 2 | let | gerund | Fairy not said here | King | first property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | know | infinitive | King not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | Fairy | a fairy | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take | past | King | a great fancy | Fairy | soon property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme to she=Destination | ||
| 6 | trust | past | King not said here | Fairy | with the precious Prince | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Recipient with prince=Theme | |||
| 7 | carry off | past | Fairy | Fairy's palace | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent whom=Theme to palace=Destination | ||||
| 8 | regale | past | Fairy | Featherhead | with cakes and tarts and every other good thing | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with cake=Theme | |||
| 9 | acquaint | the King and the Queen | nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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