The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 52
So when he arrived at the Leafy Palace, more handsome and fascinating even than ever she had been led to expect, he hardly so much as glanced at the Princess, but bestowed all his attention upon the old Fairy, to whom he seemed to have a hundred things to say.
Who acts: Featherhead, Fairy · What happens: arrive, lead, expect, glance, bestow, seem · To what, where: Leafy Palace, Fairy, attention, hundred things · 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 (Featherhead, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 arrived | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 arrived | nsubj |
| 4 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 Palace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Palace | det |
| 7 | Leafy | Leafy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Palace | compound |
| 8 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 handsome | punct |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 handsome | advmod |
| 11 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 arrived | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fascinating | cc |
| 13 | fascinating | fascinating | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 handsome | conj |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 led | advmod |
| 15 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 20 led | mark |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 led | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 led | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 led | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 led | aux:pass |
| 20 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 handsome | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 expect | mark |
| 22 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 led | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 much | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 much | nsubj |
| 25 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 27 much | advmod |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 much | advmod |
| 27 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 arrived | conj |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 glanced | mark |
| 29 | glanced | glance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 much | advcl |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 Princess | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Princess | det |
| 32 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 glanced | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 bestowed | punct |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 bestowed | cc |
| 35 | bestowed | bestow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arrived | conj |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 attention | det:predet |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 attention | nmod:poss |
| 38 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 bestowed | obj |
| 39 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 42 Fairy | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Fairy | det |
| 41 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 Fairy | amod |
| 42 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 bestowed | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 whom | punct |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 whom | case |
| 45 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 bestowed | parataxis |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 seemed | nsubj |
| 47 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 whom | acl:relcl |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 have | mark |
| 49 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 seemed | xcomp |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 hundred | det |
| 51 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 52 things | nummod |
| 52 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 have | obj |
| 53 | to | to | PART | _ | 54 say | mark |
| 54 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 52 things | acl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | Featherhead | the Leafy Palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lead | past · perfect · passive | Fairy | ever | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 3 | expect | to-infinitive | Fairy not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | glance | participle | Featherhead not said here | at the Princess | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at princess=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bestow | past | Featherhead not said here | Featherhead's attention | upon the old Fairy | tree rules | |||
| 6 | seem | past | Featherhead | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | have | to-infinitive | Featherhead not said here | hundred things | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | ||||
| 8 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | Featherhead not said here | hundred things not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | attend | Featherhead | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: 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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