The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 161
After that he came every day in the hope of meeting her again, and often expressed his delight at being with her.
Who acts: Featherhead, hope · What happens: come, meet, express, be, delight · To what, where: Princess, delight
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, hope), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 came | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hope | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hope | det |
| 9 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 day | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 meeting | mark |
| 11 | meeting | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 hope | acl |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 meeting | obj |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 meeting | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 expressed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 expressed | cc |
| 16 | often | often | ADV | _ | 17 expressed | advmod |
| 17 | expressed | express | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 delight | nmod:poss |
| 19 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 expressed | obj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 21 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 her | cop |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 expressed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Featherhead | after that; day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | gerund | the hope not said here | Princess | again | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | express | past | Featherhead not said here | Featherhead's delight | often property | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent delight=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | gerund | at Princess | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | delight | Featherhead | nom delight «feeling 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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