The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 55
Celandine was deeply mortified, since for her part the Prince pleased her very well, and for the first time she bitterly regretted the fairy gifts she had been anxious to get rid of.
Who acts: Prince, Princess · What happens: mortify, please, regret, be, get · To what, where: Celandine, Princess, fairy gifts
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 (Prince, Princess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7277:953): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Celandine | Celandine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 mortified | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mortified | aux:pass |
| 3 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 4 mortified | advmod |
| 4 | mortified | mortify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pleased | punct |
| 6 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 12 pleased | mark |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 part | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 part | nmod:poss |
| 9 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pleased | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Prince | det |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 pleased | nsubj |
| 12 | pleased | please | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mortified | advcl |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pleased | obj |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 well | advmod |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 pleased | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 regretted | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 regretted | cc |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 time | det |
| 20 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 time | amod |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 regretted | obl |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 regretted | nsubj |
| 23 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 24 regretted | advmod |
| 24 | regretted | regret | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mortified | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 gifts | det |
| 26 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gifts | compound |
| 27 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 regretted | obj |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 anxious | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 anxious | aux |
| 30 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 anxious | cop |
| 31 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 gifts | acl:relcl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 get | mark |
| 33 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 anxious | xcomp |
| 34 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 get | xcomp |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 rid | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mortified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mortify | past · passive | Celandine | deeply property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | please | past | the Prince | Princess | for Princess's part; well property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | regret | past | Princess | the fairy gifts | time | bitterly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gift=Stimulus | ||
| 4 | is | past · perfect | Princess | the fairy gifts not said here | anxious property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | get | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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