The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 188
The Prince thought they had better find their way to the Fairy of the Beech-Woods and put themselves once more under her protection, and they had hardly agreed upon this course when two little chariots wreathed with jasmine and honeysuckle suddenly appeared, and, stepping into them, they were whirled away to the Leafy Palace.
Who acts: Prince, lamentations, two little chariots, love · What happens: think, have, find, put, agree, wreathe · To what, where: way, lamentations, protection · 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, lamentations, two little chariots, love), 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 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 had | xcomp |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 had | xcomp |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 way | nmod:poss |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 find | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Fairy | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Fairy | det |
| 12 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 find | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Woods | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Woods | det |
| 15 | Beech | Beech | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Woods | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Beech | punct |
| 17 | Woods | Woods | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 Fairy | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 put | cc |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 find | conj |
| 20 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 put | obj |
| 21 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 22 more | advmod |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 put | advmod |
| 23 | under | under | ADP | _ | 25 protection | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 protection | nmod:poss |
| 25 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 put | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 agreed | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 agreed | cc |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 agreed | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 agreed | aux |
| 30 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 31 agreed | advmod |
| 31 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 thought | conj |
| 32 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 34 course | case |
| 33 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 course | det |
| 34 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 agreed | obl |
| 35 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 39 wreathed | advmod |
| 36 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 chariots | nummod |
| 37 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 chariots | amod |
| 38 | chariots | chariot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 wreathed | nsubj |
| 39 | wreathed | wreathe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 agreed | advcl |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 jasmine | case |
| 41 | jasmine | jasmine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 wreathed | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 honeysuckle | cc |
| 43 | honeysuckle | honeysuckle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 jasmine | conj |
| 44 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 45 appeared | advmod |
| 45 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 wreathed | advcl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 whirled | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 whirled | cc |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 stepping | punct |
| 49 | stepping | step | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 55 whirled | csubj:pass |
| 50 | into | into | ADP | _ | 51 them | case |
| 51 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 stepping | obl |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 stepping | punct |
| 53 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 whirled | nsubj |
| 54 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 55 whirled | aux:pass |
| 55 | whirled | whirl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 appeared | conj |
| 56 | away | away | ADV | _ | 55 whirled | advmod |
| 57 | to | to | ADP | _ | 60 Palace | case |
| 58 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 60 Palace | det |
| 59 | Leafy | Leafy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 60 Palace | compound |
| 60 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 56 away | obl |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the Prince | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | lamentations = lamentation | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | infinitive | lamentations = lamentation not said here | lamentations's way | to the Fairy of the Beech Woods | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | |||
| 4 | put | infinitive | lamentations = lamentation not said here | lamentations = lamentation | love's protection | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme under protection=Destination | |||
| 5 | agree speech: agree | past · perfect | lamentations = lamentation | upon this course; hardly property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | wreathe | participle | two little chariots | with jasmine and honeysuckle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with jasmine=Theme | ||||
| 7 | appear | past | two little chariots not said here | suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | step | gerund | into chariots = chariot | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into they=Destination | |||||
| 9 | whirl | past · passive | lamentations = lamentation | away property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 10 | protect | love | nom protection «act transitive»: 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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