The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 21
You know that, not content with endowing Celandine, Princess of the Summer Islands, with everything she could desire to make her charming, I actually took the trouble to bring her up myself; and now what does she do but come to me with more coaxings and caresses than usual to beg a favour.
Who acts: You, Princess, I · What happens: know, endow, desire, make, take, bring up · To what, where: Celandine, charming, trouble, Princess, me, favour
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 (You, Princess, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 content | mark |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 content | punct |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 content | advmod |
| 6 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 know | ccomp |
| 7 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 8 endowing | mark |
| 8 | endowing | endow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 content | advcl |
| 9 | Celandine | Celandine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 endowing | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Princess | punct |
| 11 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Celandine | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Islands | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Islands | det |
| 14 | Summer | Summer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Islands | compound |
| 15 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 Princess | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 everything | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 everything | case |
| 18 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 8 endowing | obl |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 desire | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 desire | aux |
| 21 | desire | desire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 everything | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 make | mark |
| 23 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 desire | xcomp |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 charming | nmod:poss |
| 25 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 make | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 took | punct |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 took | nsubj |
| 28 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 29 took | advmod |
| 29 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 content | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 trouble | det |
| 31 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 took | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 bring | mark |
| 33 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 took | advcl |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 bring | obj |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 33 bring | compound:prt |
| 36 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 bring | obl |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 do | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 do | cc |
| 39 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 what | advmod |
| 40 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 43 do | obj |
| 41 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 do | aux |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 do | nsubj |
| 43 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 know | parataxis |
| 44 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 45 come | cc |
| 45 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 do | conj |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 me | case |
| 47 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 come | obl |
| 48 | with | with | ADP | _ | 50 coaxings | case |
| 49 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 50 coaxings | amod |
| 50 | coaxings | coaxing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 come | obl |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 caresses | cc |
| 52 | caresses | caress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 coaxings | conj |
| 53 | than | than | ADP | _ | 54 usual | case |
| 54 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 coaxings | nmod |
| 55 | to | to | PART | _ | 56 beg | mark |
| 56 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 come | advcl |
| 57 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 58 favour | det |
| 58 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 beg | obj |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | endow | gerund | You not said here | Celandine and Princess of the Summer Islands | with everything | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent celandine=Destination with everything=Theme | |||
| 3 | desire | could | Princess | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | Princess's charming | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset charming=Product | ||||
| 5 | take | past | I | the trouble | actually property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme | |||
| 6 | bring up | to-infinitive | I not said here | Princess | myself obl | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 7 | do | present · do-support | Princess | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | come | infinitive | Princess not said here | me | with more coaxings than usual and caresses | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location | |||
| 9 | beg speech: request | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | a favour | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent favour=Recipient |
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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