The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 174

But the Prince declared that it became her vastly, and that he thought it most picturesque.

Who acts: Prince, length · What happens: declare, become, think · To what, where: appearance, length

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, length), 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	_	4 declared	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Prince	det
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 declared	nsubj
4	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 became	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 became	nsubj
7	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 declared	advcl
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 became	obj
9	vastly	vastly	ADV	_	7 became	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thought	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 thought	cc
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 thought	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 thought	nsubj
14	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 declared	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 thought	obj
16	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	17 picturesque	advmod
17	picturesque	picturesque	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 thought	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past	the Prince			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	become	past	length	appearance	vastly property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient she=Result
3	think speech: other	past	Prince	length	picturesque obl	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

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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