The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 194
Princess Celandine implored her pardon, which she graciously gave; indeed the Princess was so charming she could refuse her nothing.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: implore, give, charm, refuse, pardon · To what, where: pardon, Saradine
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 (Princess), 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 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 implored | nsubj |
| 2 | Celandine | Celandine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 implored | nsubj |
| 3 | implored | implore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 pardon | nmod:poss |
| 5 | pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 implored | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 gave | obj |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | nsubj |
| 9 | graciously | graciously | ADV | _ | 10 gave | advmod |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pardon | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 charming | punct |
| 12 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 17 charming | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Princess | det |
| 14 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 charming | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 charming | aux |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 charming | advmod |
| 17 | charming | charm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 implored | advcl |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 refuse | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 refuse | aux |
| 20 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 charming | ccomp |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 refuse | obj |
| 22 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 refuse | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 implored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | implore | past | Princess | Princess's pardon | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | give | past | Princess | Princess's pardon | graciously property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | |||
| 3 | charm | past · progressive | the Princess | indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | refuse | could | Princess | Saradine | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | pardon | Princess | nom pardon «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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