The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 60
This message made a great impression upon the Prince, but not so much as the portrait.
Who acts: message · What happens: make · To what, where: great impression
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 (message), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 message | det |
| 2 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 impression | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 impression | amod |
| 6 | impression | impression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 Prince | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Prince | det |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 much | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 much | cc |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 much | advmod |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 much | advmod |
| 14 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 made | conj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 portrait | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 portrait | det |
| 17 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 much | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | this message | a great impression | upon the Prince | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset impression=Product |
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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