The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 192
The Fairy of the Beech-Woods ran to welcome the Prince and Princess with open arms, only too delighted to find them so much improved that she could, with a clear conscience, begin to spoil them again.
Who acts: Fairy · What happens: run, welcome, find, improve, begin, spoil · To what, where: Prince, arms · 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 (Fairy), 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 Fairy | det |
| 2 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Woods | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Woods | det |
| 5 | Beech | Beech | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Woods | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Beech | punct |
| 7 | Woods | Woods | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 Fairy | nmod |
| 8 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 welcome | mark |
| 10 | welcome | welcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ran | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Prince | det |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 welcome | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Princess | cc |
| 14 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Prince | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 arms | case |
| 16 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 arms | amod |
| 17 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 welcome | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 delighted | punct |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 delighted | advmod |
| 20 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 delighted | advmod |
| 21 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ran | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 find | mark |
| 23 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 delighted | advcl |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 find | obj |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 much | advmod |
| 26 | much | much | ADV | _ | 27 improved | advmod |
| 27 | improved | improve | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 find | ccomp |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 could | mark |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 could | nsubj |
| 30 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 improved | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 conscience | punct |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 conscience | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 conscience | det |
| 34 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 conscience | amod |
| 35 | conscience | conscience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ran | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 begin | punct |
| 37 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ran | advcl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 spoil | mark |
| 39 | spoil | spoil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 begin | xcomp |
| 40 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 spoil | obj |
| 41 | again | again | ADV | _ | 39 spoil | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the Fairy of the Beech Woods | with a clear conscience | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with conscience=Material | ||||
| 2 | welcome | to-infinitive | the Fairy of the Beech Woods not said here | the Prince and Princess | with open arms | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme | |||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | the Fairy of the Beech Woods not said here | arms = arm | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | improve | past | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | begin | infinitive | the Fairy of the Beech Woods not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | spoil | to-infinitive | the Fairy of the Beech Woods not said here | arms = arm | again | tree rules |
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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