The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 163
‘I have,’ said she, ‘the unhappiness of loving a Prince who is fickle, frivolous, proud, incapable of caring for anyone but himself, who has been spoilt by flattery, and, to crown all, who does not love me.’
Who acts: I, Princess, unhappiness, incapable, flattery · What happens: have, say, love, be, care, spoil · To what, where: Prince, all, me · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, Princess, unhappiness, incapable), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 unhappiness | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 unhappiness | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 unhappiness | det |
| 11 | unhappiness | unhappiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fickle | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 loving | mark |
| 13 | loving | love | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 unhappiness | acl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Prince | det |
| 15 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 loving | obj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 fickle | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 fickle | cop |
| 18 | fickle | fickle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 frivolous | punct |
| 20 | frivolous | frivolous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fickle | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 proud | punct |
| 22 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fickle | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 incapable | punct |
| 24 | incapable | incapable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 proud | appos |
| 25 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 26 caring | mark |
| 26 | caring | care | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 incapable | acl |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 anyone | case |
| 28 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 26 caring | obl |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 himself | cc |
| 30 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 fickle | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 spoilt | punct |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 spoilt | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 spoilt | aux |
| 34 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 spoilt | aux:pass |
| 35 | spoilt | spoil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 fickle | parataxis |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 flattery | case |
| 37 | flattery | flattery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 spoilt | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 crown | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 crown | cc |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 crown | punct |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 crown | mark |
| 42 | crown | crown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 43 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 crown | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 love | punct |
| 45 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 48 love | nsubj |
| 46 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 love | aux |
| 47 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 48 love | advmod |
| 48 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 crown | conj |
| 49 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 love | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 42 crown | punct |
| 51 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 42 crown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | love | gerund | the unhappiness not said here | a Prince | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the unhappiness | fickle property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | the unhappiness not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | care | gerund | incapable not said here | for anyone | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for anyone=Theme | ||||
| 7 | spoil | present · perfect · passive | flattery | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | crown | to-infinitive | all | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme | |||||
| 9 | not love | present · do-support | me | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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