The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 185

It seemed as if they would go on for ever with their reminiscences, the Prince telling how he had wandered all over the world from beauty to beauty, always to be disappointed when he found that no one resembled the portrait; the Princess wondering how it was he could have been so long with her and yet never have recognised her, and over and over again pardoning him for his cold and haughty behaviour to her.

Who acts: It, plums, Prince, one, Princess · What happens: seem, go on, tell, wander, be, find · To what, where: world, portrait, lover, Prince, rest · 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 (It, plums, Prince, one), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 go	mark
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 go	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 go	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 seemed	xcomp
8	on	on	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 ever	case
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 go	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 reminiscences	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 reminiscences	nmod:poss
13	reminiscences	reminiscence	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 go	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Prince	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Prince	det
16	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 reminiscences	appos
17	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 Prince	acl
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 wandered	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 wandered	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 wandered	aux
21	wandered	wander	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 telling	ccomp
22	all	all	ADV	_	25 world	advmod
23	over	over	ADP	_	25 world	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 world	det
25	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wandered	obl
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 beauty	case
27	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wandered	obl
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 beauty	case
29	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 beauty	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 disappointed	punct
31	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	34 disappointed	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	34 disappointed	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 disappointed	cop
34	disappointed	disappointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 wandered	conj
35	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	37 found	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 found	nsubj
37	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 disappointed	advcl
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 resembled	mark
39	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	40 one	det
40	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 resembled	nsubj
41	resembled	resemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 found	ccomp
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 portrait	det
43	portrait	portrait	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 resembled	obj
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	71 pardoning	punct
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Princess	det
46	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 pardoning	nsubj
47	wondering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	46 Princess	acl
48	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	63 recognised	advmod
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 recognised	nsubj
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 recognised	aux:pass
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 recognised	nsubj
52	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	63 recognised	aux
53	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	63 recognised	aux
54	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	56 long	cop
55	so	so	ADV	_	56 long	advmod
56	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	63 recognised	advmod
57	with	with	ADP	_	58 her	case
58	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 long	obl
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 recognised	cc
60	yet	yet	ADV	_	63 recognised	advmod
61	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	63 recognised	advmod
62	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	63 recognised	aux
63	recognised	recognise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 wondering	advcl
64	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 recognised	obj
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 over	punct
66	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 over	cc
67	over	over	ADV	_	71 pardoning	advmod
68	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 over	cc
69	over	over	ADV	_	67 over	conj
70	again	again	ADV	_	67 over	advmod
71	pardoning	pardon	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 seemed	advcl
72	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	71 pardoning	obj
73	for	for	ADP	_	78 behaviour	case
74	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	78 behaviour	nmod:poss
75	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	78 behaviour	amod
76	and	and	CCONJ	_	77 haughty	cc
77	haughty	haughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	75 cold	conj
78	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 pardoning	obl
79	to	to	ADP	_	80 her	case
80	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	71 pardoning	obl
81	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	It						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	go on a condition, not said to happen	would	plums = plum					with plums's reminiscences	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	gerund	the Prince not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	wander	past · perfect	Prince			the world		from beauty to beauty	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over world=Trajectory
5	is	to-infinitive	Prince not said here					always, disappointed property	tree rules
6	find	past	Prince						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	resemble	past	no one	the portrait					tree rules
8	wonder speech: ask	gerund	the Princess not said here						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	is	participle						with Princess; long property	tree rules
10	not recognise	could · past · perfect · passive		lover			yet		tree rules
11	pardon	gerund	the Princess	Prince	rest			for Prince's cold behaviour; over property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for behaviour=Attribute
12	reminisce		plums = plum						nom reminiscence «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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