The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 178
Prince Featherhead was inclined to be angry at this uncivil reception, but he was really too happy to care much, so he only demanded, on Celandine’s behalf, that the old dame should give her back her own attire, that she might go away suitably dressed.
Who acts: Prince Featherhead, Featherhead, old dame, dame · What happens: be, care, demand, give back, go away, dress · To what, where: uncivil reception, behalf, own attire, house
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 Featherhead, Featherhead, old dame, dame), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Featherhead | compound |
| 2 | Featherhead | featherhead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 inclined | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 inclined | cop |
| 4 | inclined | inclined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 angry | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 angry | cop |
| 7 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 inclined | advcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 reception | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 reception | det |
| 10 | uncivil | uncivil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 reception | amod |
| 11 | reception | reception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 angry | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 happy | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 happy | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 happy | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 happy | cop |
| 16 | really | really | ADV | _ | 18 happy | advmod |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 happy | advmod |
| 18 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 inclined | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 care | mark |
| 20 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 happy | xcomp |
| 21 | much | much | ADV | _ | 20 care | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 demanded | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 demanded | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 demanded | nsubj |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 demanded | advmod |
| 26 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 inclined | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 behalf | punct |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 behalf | case |
| 29 | Celandine | Celandine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 behalf | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 Celandine | case |
| 31 | behalf | behalf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 demanded | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 give | punct |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 give | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 dame | det |
| 35 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 dame | amod |
| 36 | dame | dame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 give | nsubj |
| 37 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 give | aux |
| 38 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 demanded | conj |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 give | iobj |
| 40 | back | back | ADP | _ | 38 give | compound:prt |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 attire | nmod:poss |
| 42 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 attire | amod |
| 43 | attire | attire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 give | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 go | punct |
| 45 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 48 go | mark |
| 46 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 go | nsubj |
| 47 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 go | aux |
| 48 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 give | conj |
| 49 | away | away | ADV | _ | 48 go | advmod |
| 50 | suitably | suitably | ADV | _ | 51 dressed | advmod |
| 51 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 go | advcl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 inclined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Prince Featherhead | inclined property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | Prince Featherhead not said here | this uncivil reception | angry property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past | Featherhead | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | care | to-infinitive | Featherhead not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | demand speech: request | past | Featherhead | Celandine's behalf | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | give back | should | the old dame | house's own attire | house | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient attire=Theme | |||
| 7 | go away | might | dame | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | dress | participle | dame not said here | suitably property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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