The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 169
‘Is it possible that Prince Featherhead can have parted with it?’
Who acts: interest · What happens: be, part · To what, where: Prince Featherhead
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 (interest), 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 | _ | 4 possible | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 possible | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 possible | nsubj |
| 4 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 parted | mark |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Featherhead | compound |
| 7 | Featherhead | featherhead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 parted | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 parted | aux |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 parted | aux |
| 10 | parted | part | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 possible | advcl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 parted | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 possible | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 possible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | interest | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | part | can · perfect · passive | Prince Featherhead | with interest | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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