The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 56

Prince Featherhead was almost equally puzzled, for he had heard nothing from the King and Queen but the praises of this charming Princess, and the fact that they had spoken of her as so very beautiful only confirmed his opinion that people who live in the country have no taste.

Who acts: Featherhead, praises, people · What happens: puzzle, hear, charm, speak, confirm, live · To what, where: Prince Featherhead, nothing, Princess, fact, opinion, country · 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, praises, people), 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	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Featherhead	compound
2	Featherhead	featherhead	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 puzzled	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 puzzled	aux:pass
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 equally	advmod
5	equally	equally	ADV	_	6 puzzled	advmod
6	puzzled	puzzle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 heard	case
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heard	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 heard	aux
11	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 puzzled	conj
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 heard	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 King	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 King	det
15	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 nothing	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Queen	cc
17	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 King	conj
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 praises	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 praises	det
20	praises	praise	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 nothing	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 this	case
22	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 praises	nmod
23	charming	charm	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 praises	acl
24	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 charming	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 spoken	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 spoken	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 fact	det
28	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 spoken	nsubj:pass
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 spoken	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 spoken	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 spoken	aux
32	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 puzzled	parataxis
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 spoken	obl
35	as	as	ADV	_	32 spoken	advmod
36	so	so	ADV	_	38 beautiful	advmod
37	very	very	ADV	_	38 beautiful	advmod
38	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 spoken	conj
39	only	only	ADV	_	40 confirmed	advmod
40	confirmed	confirm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 beautiful	advcl
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 opinion	nmod:poss
42	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 confirmed	obj
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 have	mark
44	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 have	nsubj
45	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 live	nsubj
46	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 people	acl:relcl
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 country	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 country	det
49	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 live	obl
50	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 confirmed	advcl
51	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	52 taste	det
52	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 have	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 puzzled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	puzzle	past · passive		Prince Featherhead		equally property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	hear	past · perfect	Featherhead	nothing		from the King and Queen	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic from king=Source
3	charm	gerund	the praises of this not said here	Princess			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus princess=Experiencer
4	speak speech: other	past · perfect · passive		the fact		of Princess	tree rules
5	confirm	past		Featherhead's opinion			vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot opinion=Topic
6	live	present	people		the country		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location
7	have	present	people	no taste			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Patient
8	praise			this			nom praise «communication transitive»: of=patient
9	opine		Featherhead				nom opinion «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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