The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 179
This request roused her to fury, since she had counted upon the Princess’s fine robes to clothe her for the rest of her life, so that it was some time before the Prince could make himself heard to explain that he was willing to pay for them.
Who acts: request, dame, Prince · What happens: rouse, count, clothe, be, make, hear · To what, where: dame, time, Prince · 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 (request, dame, Prince), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 request | det |
| 2 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 roused | nsubj |
| 3 | roused | rouse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 roused | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 fury | case |
| 6 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 roused | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 counted | punct |
| 8 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 11 counted | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 counted | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 counted | aux |
| 11 | counted | count | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 roused | parataxis |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 robes | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Princess | det |
| 14 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 robes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Princess | case |
| 16 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 robes | amod |
| 17 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 counted | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 clothe | mark |
| 19 | clothe | clothe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 counted | advcl |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 clothe | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 rest | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 rest | det |
| 23 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 clothe | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 life | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 life | nmod:poss |
| 26 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rest | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 time | punct |
| 28 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 33 time | mark |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 so | fixed |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 time | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 time | cop |
| 32 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 time | det |
| 33 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 clothe | obl:unmarked |
| 34 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 38 make | mark |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Prince | det |
| 36 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 make | nsubj |
| 37 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 make | aux |
| 38 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 time | acl |
| 39 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 38 make | obj |
| 40 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 make | xcomp |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 explain | mark |
| 42 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 heard | advcl |
| 43 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 46 willing | mark |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 willing | nsubj |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 willing | cop |
| 46 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 explain | ccomp |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 pay | mark |
| 48 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 willing | xcomp |
| 49 | for | for | ADP | _ | 50 them | case |
| 50 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 pay | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 roused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rouse | past | this request | dame | to fury | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 2 | count | past · perfect | dame | upon the Princess's fine robes | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | clothe | to-infinitive | dame not said here | dame | for the rest of dame's life | vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 4 | is a | past | request | some time | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | could | the Prince | Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | hear | participle | Prince not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | explain speech: assert | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | is | past | Prince | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | pay | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | for Celandine | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for they=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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