The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 166
‘But where can his eyes be,’ said the Prince, ‘that your beauty makes no impression upon him?
Who acts: Prince, beauty · What happens: say, make · To what, where: impression · 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 (Prince, beauty), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 can | cc |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 can | advmod |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 be | nsubj |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 can | cop |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 can | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 can | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Prince | det |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 makes | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 makes | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 makes | mark |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 17 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 makes | nsubj |
| 18 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 impression | det |
| 20 | impression | impression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 makes | obj |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 makes | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make | present | your beauty | no impression | upon Prince | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset impression=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/pg7277/12/166/