The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 159

The fact was that the Fairy of the Beech-Woods, thinking she had been punished enough, had withdrawn the enchantment from her, and transferred it to Featherhead, thereby in an instant depriving him of the good looks which had done so much towards making him the fickle creature he was.

Who acts: fact, instant, good · What happens: think, punish, withdraw, transfer, deprive, look · To what, where: Fairy, enchantment, Featherhead, fickle creature

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 (fact, instant, good), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fact	det
2	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thinking	nsubj:outer
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 thinking	aux
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 thinking	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Fairy	det
6	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 thinking	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 Woods	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Woods	det
9	Beech	Beech	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Woods	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Beech	punct
11	Woods	Woods	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 Fairy	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thinking	punct
13	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 punished	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 punished	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 punished	aux:pass
17	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 thinking	parataxis
18	enough	enough	ADV	_	17 punished	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 withdrawn	punct
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 withdrawn	aux
21	withdrawn	withdraw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 punished	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 enchantment	det
23	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 withdrawn	obj
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 her	case
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 withdrawn	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 transferred	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 transferred	cc
28	transferred	transfer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 punished	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 transferred	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 Featherhead	case
31	Featherhead	featherhead	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 transferred	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 instant	punct
33	thereby	thereby	ADV	_	36 instant	advmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 instant	case
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 instant	det
36	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thinking	parataxis
37	depriving	deprive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 instant	acl
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 depriving	obj
39	of	of	SCONJ	_	42 looks	mark
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 good	det
41	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 looks	nsubj
42	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 instant	advcl
43	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 done	nsubj
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 done	aux
45	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 looks	xcomp
46	so	so	ADV	_	47 much	advmod
47	much	much	ADV	_	45 done	advmod
48	towards	towards	SCONJ	_	49 making	mark
49	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 done	advcl
50	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 making	obj
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 creature	det
52	fickle	fickle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 creature	amod
53	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 making	obj
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 was	nsubj
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 creature	acl:relcl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 thinking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · progressive	the fact				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	punish	past · perfect · passive		Fairy		enough property	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	withdraw	past · perfect		the enchantment		from Fairy	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent enchantment=Theme from she=Initial_Location
4	transfer	past		enchantment	Featherhead		vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to featherhead=Recipient
5	deprive	gerund	a instant not said here	Featherhead			vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Source
6	look	present	the good				tree rules
7	do	past · perfect					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	make	gerund		the fickle creature	Featherhead		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary creature=Product

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/159/