The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 162

But one day, when he had been begging Celandine to love him, she confided to him that it was quite impossible, since her heart was already entirely occupied by another.

Who acts: Featherhead, Princess · What happens: beg, love, confide, be, occupy · To what, where: Featherhead, heart

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, Princess), 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	_	16 confided	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 confided	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Celandine	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 begging	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 begging	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 begging	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 begging	aux
9	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 Celandine	amod
10	Celandine	celandine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	appos
11	to	to	PART	_	12 love	mark
12	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 Celandine	acl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 love	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 confided	nsubj
16	confided	confide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 confided	obl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 impossible	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 impossible	expl
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 impossible	cop
22	quite	quite	ADV	_	23 impossible	advmod
23	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 confided	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 occupied	punct
25	since	since	SCONJ	_	31 occupied	mark
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 heart	nmod:poss
27	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 occupied	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 occupied	aux:pass
29	already	already	ADV	_	31 occupied	advmod
30	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	31 occupied	advmod
31	occupied	occupy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 confided	advcl
32	by	by	ADP	_	33 another	case
33	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	31 occupied	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 confided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past · perfect · progressive	Featherhead					vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
2	love	to-infinitive	Princess not said here	Featherhead				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	confide speech: other	past	Princess		Featherhead	day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	is	past	Princess not said here				impossible property	tree rules
5	occupy	past · passive		Princess's heart			by another; entirely property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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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