The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 15
But unfortunately, in spite of all her care, he grew so vain and frivolous that he quitted his peaceful country life in disgust, and rushed eagerly after all the foolish gaieties of the neighbouring town, where his handsome face and charming manners speedily made him popular.
Who acts: Featherhead, handsome face, Fairy · What happens: grow, quitt, rush, neighbour, make, spite · To what, where: spite, peaceful country life, disgust, Featherhead, care
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 (Featherhead, handsome face, Fairy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 grew | cc |
| 2 | unfortunately | unfortunately | ADV | _ | 12 grew | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 unfortunately | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 spite | case |
| 5 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grew | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 care | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 care | det:predet |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 care | nmod:poss |
| 9 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spite | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 spite | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 grew | nsubj |
| 12 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 vain | advmod |
| 14 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 grew | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 frivolous | cc |
| 16 | frivolous | frivolous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 vain | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 quitted | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 quitted | nsubj |
| 19 | quitted | quitt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 vain | advcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 life | nmod:poss |
| 21 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 life | amod |
| 22 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 life | compound |
| 23 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 quitted | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 disgust | case |
| 25 | disgust | disgust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 quitted | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 rushed | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 rushed | cc |
| 28 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 grew | conj |
| 29 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 28 rushed | advmod |
| 30 | after | after | ADP | _ | 34 gaieties | case |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 gaieties | det:predet |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 gaieties | det |
| 33 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 gaieties | amod |
| 34 | gaieties | gaiety | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 rushed | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 town | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 town | det |
| 37 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 town | amod |
| 38 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 gaieties | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 made | punct |
| 40 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 48 made | advmod |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 face | nmod:poss |
| 42 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 face | amod |
| 43 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 made | nsubj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 manners | cc |
| 45 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 manners | compound |
| 46 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 43 face | conj |
| 47 | speedily | speedily | ADV | _ | 48 made | advmod |
| 48 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 town | acl:relcl |
| 49 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 made | obj |
| 50 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 made | xcomp |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Featherhead | spite of Fairy's care | unfortunately, vain property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in spite=Location | |||
| 2 | quitt | past | Featherhead | Featherhead's peaceful country life | disgust | tree rules | |||
| 3 | rush | past | Featherhead not said here | after all foolish gaieties of the neighbouring town | eagerly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | make | past | Featherhead's handsome face and charming manners | Featherhead | popular, speedily property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product | |||
| 6 | spite | Fairy's care | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | care | Fairy | nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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