The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 47

It is true that she never said so positively, but she certainly allowed the Princess to believe it, because she thought a little disappointment would be good for her.

Who acts: diamond, Fairy, little disappointment · What happens: be, not say, allow, believe, think · To what, where: Princess, diamond · 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 (diamond, Fairy, little disappointment), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 said	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 said	advmod
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 true	advcl
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 positively	advmod
9	positively	positively	ADV	_	7 said	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 allowed	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 allowed	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 allowed	nsubj
13	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	14 allowed	advmod
14	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 true	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Princess	det
16	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 allowed	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 believe	mark
18	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 Princess	acl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 believe	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 thought	punct
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 thought	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 thought	nsubj
23	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 allowed	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 disappointment	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 disappointment	amod
26	disappointment	disappointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 good	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 good	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 good	cop
29	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 thought	ccomp
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 her	case
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 good	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	diamond			true property	tree rules
2	not say speech: assert	past	Fairy			positively property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	allow	past	Fairy		the Princess	certainly property	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Beneficiary
4	believe	to-infinitive	Fairy not said here	diamond			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	think speech: other	past	Fairy				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	would	a little disappointment			for Fairy; good property	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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