The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 42

When the Fairy of the Beech-Woods came to them, they presented the Princess to her, and told her story, little thinking that the Fairy knew more about Celandine than they did.

Who acts: Fairy, Woods · What happens: come, present, tell, know, do · To what, where: Woods, Princess, story, more · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Fairy, Woods), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fairy	det
3	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 Woods	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Woods	det
6	Beech	Beech	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Woods	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Beech	punct
8	Woods	Woods	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 Fairy	nmod
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 presented	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 came	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 presented	nsubj
14	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Princess	det
16	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 presented	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 presented	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 told	cc
21	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 presented	conj
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 story	nmod:poss
23	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 told	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 thinking	punct
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 thinking	amod
26	thinking	thinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 story	appos
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 knew	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Fairy	det
29	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 knew	nsubj
30	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 thinking	acl:relcl
31	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 knew	obj
32	about	about	ADP	_	33 Celandine	case
33	Celandine	celandine	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 more	obl
34	than	than	SCONJ	_	36 did	mark
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 did	nsubj
36	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 more	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 presented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	come	past	the Fairy of the Beech Woods		Woods	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location
2	present	past	Woods	the Princess	Princess	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent princess=Theme to she=Recipient
3	tell speech: assert	past	Woods not said here	Princess's story		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
4	know	past	the Fairy	more		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus
5	do	past	Woods			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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