The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 184

But as the Prince began to look angry, she, with many sighs and mutterings, brought out a morsel of bread, a bowl of milk, and six plums, with which the lovers were well content: for as long as they could look at one another they really did not know what they were eating.

Who acts: Prince, lovers, plums · What happens: begin, look, bring out, be, not know, eat · To what, where: morsel, well content · 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 (Prince, lovers, plums), 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	_	5 began	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 began	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Prince	det
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 look	mark
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 look	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sighs	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sighs	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 sighs	case
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sighs	amod
14	sighs	sigh	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 began	parataxis
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 mutterings	cc
16	mutterings	muttering	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sighs	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 brought	punct
18	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 sighs	conj
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 brought	compound:prt
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 morsel	det
21	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 brought	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 bread	case
23	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 morsel	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bowl	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 bowl	det
26	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bread	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 milk	case
28	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bowl	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 plums	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 plums	cc
31	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 plums	nummod
32	plums	plum	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sighs	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 content	punct
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 which	case
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 content	obl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 lovers	det
37	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 content	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 content	cop
39	well	well	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 content	amod
40	content	content	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 plums	appos
41	:	:	PUNCT	_	44 long	punct
42	for	for	ADP	_	44 long	case
43	as	as	ADV	_	44 long	advmod
44	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	40 content	advmod
45	as	as	SCONJ	_	48 look	mark
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 look	nsubj
47	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 look	aux
48	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 long	advcl
49	at	at	ADP	_	50 one	case
50	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	48 look	obl
51	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	50 one	fixed
52	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 know	nsubj
53	really	really	ADV	_	56 know	advmod
54	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 know	aux
55	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	56 know	advmod
56	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 one	acl:relcl
57	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	60 eating	obj
58	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 eating	nsubj
59	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 eating	aux
60	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	56 know	ccomp
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the Prince			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	look	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here		angry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	bring out	participle	the Prince not said here	a morsel of bread and a bowl of milk		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent morsel=Patient
4	is a	past	the lovers	well content	with six plums; long property	tree rules
5	look	could	plums = plum		at one	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at one=Theme
6	not know	past · do-support	plums = plum			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	eat	past · progressive	plums = plum			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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