The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 53
The Princess was immensely astonished at his indifference, and put on a cold and offended air, which, however, he did not seem to observe.
Who acts: cold air · What happens: astonish, put, not seem, observe · To what, where: Princess, indifference, cold air
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 (cold air), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 astonished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 astonished | aux:pass |
| 4 | immensely | immensely | ADV | _ | 5 astonished | advmod |
| 5 | astonished | astonish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 indifference | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 indifference | nmod:poss |
| 8 | indifference | indifference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 astonished | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 put | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 put | cc |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 astonished | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 air | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 air | det |
| 14 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 air | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 offended | cc |
| 16 | offended | offended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cold | conj |
| 17 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 seem | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 seem | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 which | punct |
| 21 | however | however | ADV | _ | 26 seem | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 however | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 seem | nsubj |
| 24 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 seem | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 seem | advmod |
| 26 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 air | acl:relcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 observe | mark |
| 28 | observe | observe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 seem | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | astonish | past · passive | the Princess | Featherhead's indifference | immensely property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | put | participle | a cold air | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on air=Destination | |||||
| 3 | not seem | past · do-support | a cold air | however property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | observe | to-infinitive | a cold air not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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