The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 44
Often she would say to the Princess, when showing her some wonderful thing:
Who acts: Fairy · What happens: say, show · To what, where: Princess, wonderful thing · 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), 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 | Often | often | ADV | _ | 4 say | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Princess | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Princess | det |
| 7 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 say | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 showing | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 showing | advmod |
| 10 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 say | advcl |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 thing | nmod:poss |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 thing | det |
| 13 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thing | amod |
| 14 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 showing | obj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | would | Fairy | the Princess | often property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to princess=Recipient | |||
| 2 | show | gerund | Fairy not said here | Fairy's wonderful thing | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=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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