The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 197
Their marriage took place the next day, and they lived happily ever afterwards, for Celandine was never vain and Featherhead was never fickle any more.
Who acts: marriage, subjects, Celandine, Featherhead · What happens: take, live, not be, marry · To what, where: place
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 (marriage, subjects, Celandine, Featherhead), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 2 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 6 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lived | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lived | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lived | nsubj |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 12 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 11 lived | advmod |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 afterwards | advmod |
| 14 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 11 lived | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 vain | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 vain | mark |
| 17 | Celandine | Celandine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 vain | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 vain | cop |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 vain | advmod |
| 20 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lived | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 fickle | cc |
| 22 | Featherhead | featherhead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fickle | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 fickle | cop |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 fickle | advmod |
| 25 | fickle | fickle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 vain | conj |
| 26 | any | any | ADV | _ | 27 more | advmod |
| 27 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 fickle | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | subjects's marriage | place | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | past | subjects = subject | afterwards, happily property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not is | past | Celandine | vain property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not is | past | Featherhead | fickle property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | marry | subjects = subject | nom marriage «state 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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