The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 58

The Fairy too was quite shocked at his conceit, and hit upon a plan for curing him of it.

Who acts: Fairy · What happens: be, hit, cure · To what, where: conceit, Featherhead

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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Fairy	det
2	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shocked	nsubj
3	too	too	ADV	_	6 shocked	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shocked	cop
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 shocked	advmod
6	shocked	shocked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 conceit	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 conceit	nmod:poss
9	conceit	conceit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shocked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hit	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hit	cc
12	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shocked	conj
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 plan	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 plan	det
15	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hit	obl
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 curing	mark
17	curing	cure	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 hit	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 curing	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 curing	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 shocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Fairy		Featherhead's conceit	shocked property	tree rules
2	hit	past	the Fairy not said here			upon a plan	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cure	gerund	the Fairy not said here	Featherhead		of plan	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer he=Source of it=Theme

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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