The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 168
‘My portrait?’ cried Celandine with sudden interest.
Who acts: portrait, My · What happens: cry, portray
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 (portrait, My), 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 portrait | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 portrait | nmod:poss |
| 3 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 portrait | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 portrait | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Celandine | Celandine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | flat |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 interest | case |
| 9 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 interest | amod |
| 10 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | My portrait | with sudden interest | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with interest=Theme | ||||
| 2 | portray | My | nom portrait «communication transitive»: 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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