The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 59
She sent to him by an unknown messenger a portrait of Princess Celandine as she really was, with this inscription: ‘All this beauty and sweetness, with a loving heart and a great kingdom, might have been yours but for your well-known fickleness.’
Who acts: Fairy · What happens: send, be, know, portray · To what, where: portrait, Featherhead, yours, Princess
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | obl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 messenger | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 messenger | det |
| 7 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 messenger | amod |
| 8 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 portrait | det |
| 10 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Princess | case |
| 12 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 portrait | nmod |
| 13 | Celandine | Celandine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Princess | flat |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 inscription | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 inscription | nsubj |
| 16 | really | really | ADV | _ | 21 inscription | advmod |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 inscription | cop |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 inscription | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 inscription | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 inscription | det |
| 21 | inscription | inscription | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | parataxis |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 beauty | punct |
| 23 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 beauty | punct |
| 24 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 beauty | det:predet |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 beauty | det |
| 26 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 inscription | appos |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 sweetness | cc |
| 28 | sweetness | sweetness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 beauty | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 heart | punct |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 heart | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 heart | det |
| 32 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 heart | amod |
| 33 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 beauty | conj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 kingdom | cc |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 kingdom | det |
| 36 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 kingdom | amod |
| 37 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 beauty | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 yours | punct |
| 39 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 yours | aux |
| 40 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 yours | aux |
| 41 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 42 yours | cop |
| 42 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 beauty | conj |
| 43 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 49 fickleness | cc |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 49 fickleness | case |
| 45 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 fickleness | nmod:poss |
| 46 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 48 known | advmod |
| 47 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 46 well | punct |
| 48 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 49 fickleness | amod |
| 49 | fickleness | fickleness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 yours | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 beauty | punct |
| 51 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 beauty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Fairy | a portrait of Princess | Featherhead | by a unknown messenger | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent portrait=Theme to he=Destination | ||
| 2 | is | past | Fairy | with this inscription | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | might · perfect | Fairy not said here | yours | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know | participle | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | portray | Princess | nom portrait «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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