The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 38
The King was charmed with her spirit, while the Queen thought she had indeed been daring thus to go against the Fairy’s wishes.
Who acts: Queen, Fairy · What happens: charm, think, dare, go, wish · To what, where: King, wishes
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 (Queen, 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 charmed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 charmed | aux:pass |
| 4 | charmed | charm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 spirit | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 spirit | nmod:poss |
| 7 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 charmed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 thought | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Queen | det |
| 11 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 charmed | advcl |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 daring | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 daring | aux |
| 15 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 17 daring | advmod |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 daring | aux |
| 17 | daring | dare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 17 daring | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 go | mark |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 daring | xcomp |
| 21 | against | against | ADP | _ | 25 wishes | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Fairy | det |
| 23 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 Fairy | case |
| 25 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 go | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 charmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charm | past · passive | the King | with Princess's spirit | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the Queen | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | dare | past · perfect · progressive | Queen | indeed, thus property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | Queen not said here | the Fairy's wishes | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme against wish=Location | ||||
| 5 | wish | the Fairy | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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