The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 43
The old Fairy was equally delighted with her, and often invited her to visit her Leafy Palace, which was the most enchanting place that could be imagined, and full of treasures.
Who acts: old Fairy, Fairy, Leafy Palace · What happens: be, invite, visit, enchant, imagine · To what, where: Fairy, Leafy Palace, enchanting 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 (old Fairy, Fairy, Leafy Palace), 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 | 3 Fairy | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Fairy | amod |
| 3 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 delighted | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 delighted | cop |
| 5 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 6 delighted | advmod |
| 6 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 delighted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 invited | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 invited | cc |
| 11 | often | often | ADV | _ | 12 invited | advmod |
| 12 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 delighted | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 invited | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 visit | mark |
| 15 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 invited | xcomp |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 Palace | nmod:poss |
| 17 | Leafy | Leafy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Palace | compound |
| 18 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 visit | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 place | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 place | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 place | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 place | det |
| 23 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 24 enchanting | advmod |
| 24 | enchanting | enchant | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 place | amod |
| 25 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Palace | appos |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 imagined | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 imagined | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 imagined | aux:pass |
| 29 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 place | acl:relcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 full | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 full | cc |
| 32 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 delighted | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 treasures | case |
| 34 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 full | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the old Fairy | with Princess; delighted, equally property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | invite | past | the old Fairy not said here | Fairy | often property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | visit not said to happen | to-infinitive | Fairy not said here | Fairy's Leafy Palace | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | enchant | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | is a | past | Fairy's Leafy Palace | the enchanting place | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | imagine | could · passive | the enchanting place | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 7 | be | the old Fairy not said here | of treasures | tree rules |
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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