The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 150

And so she chattered on, but poor Celandine did not hear or heed her; she wandered out into the desolate country to think over her sad fate.

Who acts: dame, poor Celandine · What happens: chatter, not hear, heed, wander out, desolate, think · To what, where: dame, desolate country, sad fate

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 (dame, poor 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 chattered	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 chattered	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chattered	nsubj
4	chattered	chatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 chattered	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hear	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 hear	cc
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Celandine	amod
9	Celandine	Celandine	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 hear	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hear	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 hear	advmod
12	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 chattered	conj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 heed	cc
14	heed	heed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 hear	conj
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 heed	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 wandered	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wandered	nsubj
18	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chattered	conj
19	out	out	ADV	_	18 wandered	advmod
20	into	into	ADP	_	23 country	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 country	det
22	desolate	desolate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 country	compound
23	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wandered	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 think	mark
25	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wandered	advcl
26	over	over	ADP	_	29 fate	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 fate	nmod:poss
28	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 fate	amod
29	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 think	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 chattered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	chatter	past	dame				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not hear	past · do-support	poor Celandine				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	heed	infinitive	poor Celandine not said here	dame			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	wander out	past	dame		the desolate country	out property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into country=Destination
5	desolate	infinitive					tree rules
6	think speech: other	to-infinitive	dame not said here		dame's sad fate		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	fate		dame				nom fate «event transitive»: 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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