The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 158

But Prince Featherhead, for it was he, perceiving her at the same moment, rushed towards her with every demonstration of joy: for he had recognised her, not as the Celandine whom he had slighted, but as the lovely Princess whom he had sought vainly for so long.

Who acts: stranger, Prince Featherhead, Featherhead · What happens: perceive, rush, recognise, slight, seek, demonstrate · To what, where: dog, Celandine, joy

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 (stranger, Prince Featherhead, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	17 rushed	cc
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Featherhead	compound
3	Featherhead	featherhead	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rushed	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 perceiving	punct
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 perceiving	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 perceiving	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 perceiving	aux
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 perceiving	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 perceiving	punct
10	perceiving	perceive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 Featherhead	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 perceiving	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 moment	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 moment	det
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 moment	amod
15	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 perceiving	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Featherhead	punct
17	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	towards	towards	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 rushed	obl
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 demonstration	case
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 demonstration	det
22	demonstration	demonstration	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rushed	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 joy	case
24	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 demonstration	nmod
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 recognised	punct
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 recognised	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 recognised	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 recognised	aux
29	recognised	recognise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 rushed	conj
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 recognised	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Celandine	punct
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 Celandine	advmod
33	as	as	ADP	_	35 Celandine	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Celandine	det
35	Celandine	Celandine	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 recognised	obl:agent
36	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 slighted	obj
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 slighted	nsubj
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 slighted	aux
39	slighted	slight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 Celandine	acl:relcl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 sought	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	49 sought	cc
42	as	as	ADP	_	45 Princess	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 Princess	det
44	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 Princess	amod
45	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 sought	obl
46	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 sought	obj
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 sought	nsubj
48	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 sought	aux
49	sought	seek	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 rushed	conj
50	vainly	vainly	ADV	_	49 sought	advmod
51	for	for	ADP	_	53 long	case
52	so	so	ADV	_	53 long	advmod
53	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	49 sought	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 rushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	perceive	past · progressive	stranger	dog	moment		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	rush	past	Prince Featherhead			towards dog; with every demonstration of joy	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards she=Destination
3	recognise	past · perfect	Featherhead	dog			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
4	slight	past · perfect	Featherhead	the Celandine			tree rules
5	seek	past · perfect	Featherhead			as the lovely Princess; vainly property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent whom=Location for long=Theme
6	demonstrate			joy			nom demonstration «act 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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