The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 48
But the person she really relied upon for curing Celandine of her vanity was Prince Featherhead.
Who acts: person, Celandine · What happens: rely, cure, be · To what, where: Prince Featherhead
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 (person, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 relied | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 person | det |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 relied | nsubj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 relied | nsubj |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 relied | advmod |
| 6 | relied | rely | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 9 curing | mark |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 curing | mark |
| 9 | curing | cure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 relied | advcl |
| 10 | Celandine | Celandine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Featherhead | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 vanity | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 vanity | nmod:poss |
| 13 | vanity | vanity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Celandine | nmod |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 Featherhead | cop |
| 15 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Featherhead | compound |
| 16 | Featherhead | featherhead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 curing | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 relied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rely | past | the person | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cure | gerund | the person not said here | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | Celandine of person's vanity | Prince Featherhead | 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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