The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 57

He talked to them of his charming acquaintances in the town, the beauties he had admired, did admire, or thought he was going to admire, until Celandine, who heard it all, was ready to cry with vexation.

Who acts: Featherhead, Celandine · What happens: talk, admire, think, go, hear, be · To what, where: Celandine, beauties, beauty, town · 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, Celandine), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 talked	nsubj
2	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 talked	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 acquaintances	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 acquaintances	nmod:poss
7	charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 acquaintances	compound
8	acquaintances	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 talked	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 town	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 town	det
11	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 acquaintances	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 beauties	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 beauties	det
14	beauties	beauty	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 acquaintances	conj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 admired	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 admired	aux
17	admired	admire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 beauties	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 admire	punct
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 admire	aux
20	admire	admire	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 talked	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 thought	punct
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 thought	cc
23	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 talked	conj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 going	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 going	aux
26	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 thought	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 admire	mark
28	admire	admire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 going	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Celandine	punct
30	until	until	ADP	_	31 Celandine	case
31	Celandine	Celandine	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 admire	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 heard	punct
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 heard	nsubj
34	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 Celandine	acl:relcl
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 heard	obj
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 it	det
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 ready	punct
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 ready	cop
39	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 thought	ccomp
40	to	to	PART	_	41 cry	mark
41	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 ready	xcomp
42	with	with	ADP	_	43 vexation	case
43	vexation	vexation	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 cry	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	talk	past	Featherhead		Celandine		of Featherhead's charming acquaintances in the town and the beauties	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-Agent
2	admire	past · perfect	Featherhead	the beauties not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus
3	admire	past · do-support						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	think speech: other	past	Featherhead not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	go	past · progressive	Featherhead					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	admire	to-infinitive	Featherhead not said here	Celandine				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer celandine=Stimulus
7	hear	past	Celandine	beauty				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
8	is	past					ready property	tree rules
9	cry speech: express	to-infinitive					with vexation	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with vexation=Theme
10	acquaint		Featherhead			the town		nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=place

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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