The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 50
However, she did not even hint to the Princess that Featherhead was anything but absolutely perfect, and talked of him so much that when at last she announced that he was coming to visit her, Celandine made up her mind that this delightful Prince would be certain to fall in love with her at once, and was quite pleased at the idea.
Who acts: Fairy, Featherhead, Celandine, this · What happens: not hint, be, talk, announce, come, visit · To what, where: Princess, anything, Fairy, mind, love, idea · 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, Featherhead, Celandine, this), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 7 hint | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hint | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hint | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 hint | advmod |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 hint | advmod |
| 7 | hint | hint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Princess | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Princess | det |
| 10 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hint | obl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 anything | mark |
| 12 | Featherhead | featherhead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 anything | compound |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 anything | cop |
| 14 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 Princess | nmod |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 perfect | cc |
| 16 | absolutely | absolutely | ADV | _ | 17 perfect | advmod |
| 17 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 anything | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 talked | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 talked | cc |
| 20 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hint | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 talked | obl |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 much | advmod |
| 24 | much | much | ADV | _ | 28 last | advmod |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 last | mark |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 last | advmod |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 last | case |
| 28 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 talked | advcl |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 announced | nsubj |
| 30 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 last | advcl |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 coming | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 coming | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 coming | aux |
| 34 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 announced | ccomp |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 visit | mark |
| 36 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 coming | advcl |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 visit | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 made | punct |
| 39 | Celandine | Celandine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 made | nsubj |
| 40 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 announced | parataxis |
| 41 | up | up | ADP | _ | 40 made | compound:prt |
| 42 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 mind | nmod:poss |
| 43 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 made | obj |
| 44 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 50 certain | mark |
| 45 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 50 certain | nsubj |
| 46 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 certain | amod |
| 47 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 certain | nsubj |
| 48 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 certain | aux |
| 49 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 50 certain | cop |
| 50 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 made | xcomp |
| 51 | to | to | PART | _ | 52 fall | mark |
| 52 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 certain | xcomp |
| 53 | in | in | ADP | _ | 54 love | case |
| 54 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 fall | obl |
| 55 | with | with | ADP | _ | 56 her | case |
| 56 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 fall | obl |
| 57 | at | at | ADP | _ | 58 once | case |
| 58 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 52 fall | obl |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 63 pleased | punct |
| 60 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 63 pleased | cc |
| 61 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 63 pleased | cop |
| 62 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 63 pleased | advmod |
| 63 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 made | conj |
| 64 | at | at | ADP | _ | 66 idea | case |
| 65 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 66 idea | det |
| 66 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 63 pleased | obl |
| 67 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hint | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hint speech: other | past · do-support | Fairy | the Princess | however property | vn say-37.7-1-2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to princess=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is a | past | anything | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | absolutely property | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | talk | past | Fairy not said here | of Featherhead | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | announce speech: other | past | Fairy | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | come | past · progressive | Featherhead | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | visit | to-infinitive | Featherhead not said here | Fairy | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 8 | make up | past | Celandine | Fairy's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 9 | is | would | this | certain property | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | fall | to-infinitive | this not said here | love | with Fairy | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | |||
| 11 | is | past | Celandine not said here | the idea | pleased property | tree rules | |||
| 12 | mind | Fairy | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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