The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 145
But Celandine did not find it possible to be interested in this and similar pieces of advice.
Who acts: Celandine · What happens: not find, be · To what, where: number, this · 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 (Celandine), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 find | cc |
| 2 | Celandine | Celandine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 find | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 find | advmod |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 find | obj |
| 7 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 find | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 interested | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 interested | cop |
| 10 | interested | interested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 find | ccomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 this | case |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 interested | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pieces | cc |
| 14 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pieces | amod |
| 15 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 interested | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 advice | case |
| 17 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pieces | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not find | past · do-support | Celandine | number | possible property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | this | interested property | 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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