The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 14
This was the way she chose of making him fond of her; but afterwards, as he grew older, she spared no pains in educating and training him as a prince should be trained.
Who acts: This, Fairy, Featherhead · What happens: be, choose, make, grow, spare, educate · To what, where: way, Featherhead, pains
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, 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 | 4 way | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 way | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 way | det |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 trained | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 chose | nsubj |
| 6 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 way | acl:relcl |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 making | mark |
| 8 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 chose | advcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 making | obj |
| 10 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 making | xcomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fond | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 grew | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 grew | cc |
| 15 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 19 grew | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 grew | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 grew | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 grew | nsubj |
| 19 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 way | acl:relcl |
| 20 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 grew | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 spared | punct |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 spared | nsubj |
| 23 | spared | spare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 grew | conj |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 pains | det |
| 25 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 spared | obj |
| 26 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 27 educating | mark |
| 27 | educating | educate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 spared | advcl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 training | cc |
| 29 | training | train | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 educating | conj |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 training | obj |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 prince | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 prince | det |
| 33 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 training | obl |
| 34 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 trained | aux |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 trained | aux:pass |
| 36 | trained | train | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 trained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | the way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | choose | past | Fairy | the way not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | Fairy not said here | Featherhead | fond property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product | |||
| 4 | grow | past | Featherhead | the way not said here | afterwards, old property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | |||
| 5 | spare | past | Fairy | no pains | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent pain=Asset | ||||
| 6 | educate speech: other | gerund | Fairy not said here | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | train | gerund | Fairy not said here | Featherhead | as a prince | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme as prince=Attribute | |||
| 8 | train | should · passive | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP» |
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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