The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 41
So Celandine stayed, and helped the Queen to keep house, and very soon they loved her dearly.
Who acts: Celandine · What happens: stay, help, keep, love · To what, where: Queen, house
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 (Celandine), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 stayed | advmod |
| 2 | Celandine | Celandine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stayed | nsubj |
| 3 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 helped | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 helped | cc |
| 6 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stayed | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Queen | det |
| 8 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 helped | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 keep | mark |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 helped | advcl |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keep | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 loved | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 loved | cc |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 soon | advmod |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 loved | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 loved | nsubj |
| 17 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stayed | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 loved | obj |
| 19 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 17 loved | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | Celandine | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | help | past | Celandine not said here | the Queen | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | Celandine not said here | house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 4 | love | past | Celandine | Queen | dearly, soon property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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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