The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 180

The sight of a handful of gold pieces somewhat mollified her, however, and after making them both promise faithfully that on no consideration would they ask for the gold back again, she took the Princess into the house and grudgingly doled out to her just enough of her gay attire to make her presentable, while the rest she pretended to have lost.

Who acts: sight, dame, Celandine, rest · What happens: mollify, make, ask, take, dole out, pretend · To what, where: dame, Celandine, consideration, Princess, house, handful

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 (sight, dame, Celandine, rest), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sight	det
2	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mollified	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 handful	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 handful	det
5	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sight	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 pieces	case
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pieces	compound
8	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 handful	nmod
9	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	10 mollified	advmod
10	mollified	mollify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 mollified	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 however	punct
13	however	however	ADV	_	10 mollified	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 took	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 took	cc
16	after	after	SCONJ	_	17 making	mark
17	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 took	advcl
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 making	obj
19	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	20 promise	det
20	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 making	obj
21	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	_	17 making	advmod
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 ask	mark
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 consideration	case
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 consideration	det
25	consideration	consideration	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ask	obl
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 ask	aux
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 ask	nsubj
28	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 making	advcl
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 gold	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 gold	det
31	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ask	obl
32	back	back	ADV	_	33 again	advmod
33	again	again	ADV	_	28 ask	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 making	punct
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 took	nsubj
36	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 mollified	parataxis
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Princess	det
38	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 took	obj
39	into	into	ADP	_	41 house	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 house	det
41	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 took	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 doled	cc
43	grudgingly	grudgingly	ADV	_	44 doled	advmod
44	doled	dole	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 took	conj
45	out	out	ADP	_	44 doled	compound:prt
46	to	to	ADP	_	47 her	case
47	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 doled	obl
48	just	just	ADV	_	49 enough	advmod
49	enough	enough	ADV	_	53 attire	advmod
50	of	of	ADP	_	53 attire	case
51	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 attire	nmod:poss
52	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 attire	amod
53	attire	attire	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 doled	obl
54	to	to	PART	_	55 make	mark
55	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 doled	advcl
56	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 presentable	nmod:poss
57	presentable	presentable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 make	xcomp
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 pretended	punct
59	while	while	SCONJ	_	63 pretended	mark
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 rest	det
61	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 pretended	nsubj
62	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 pretended	nsubj
63	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 took	conj
64	to	to	PART	_	65 have	mark
65	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	63 pretended	xcomp
66	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	65 have	xcomp
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 mollified	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mollify	past	the sight of a handful of gold pieces	dame				however, somewhat property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
2	make	gerund	dame not said here	Celandine				faithfully property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary promise=Product
3	ask speech: ask	would	Celandine			no consideration	again	for the gold	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	take	past	dame	the Princess		the house			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent princess=Theme into house=Destination
5	dole out	participle	dame not said here		dame			of dame's gay attire; grudgingly property	tree rules
6	make	to-infinitive	dame not said here					presentable property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
7	pretend	past	the rest						tree rules
8	have	to-infinitive	the rest not said here						tree rules
9	lose	participle	the rest not said here						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	sight			a handful of gold pieces					nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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