The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 62
Then he began to think that it was too absurd that he, the fascinating Featherhead, should fall in love with a portrait; and, to drive away the recollections of its haunting eyes, he rushed back to the town; but somehow everything seemed changed.
Who acts: message, portrait · What happens: begin, think, be, fall, drive away, rush back · To what, where: love, recollections, everything, haunting eyes · 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 (message, portrait), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 began | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 think | mark |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 absurd | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 absurd | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 absurd | cop |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 absurd | advmod |
| 10 | absurd | absurd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 think | ccomp |
| 11 | that | that | ADP | _ | 12 he | case |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 absurd | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Featherhead | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Featherhead | det |
| 15 | fascinating | fascinating | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Featherhead | amod |
| 16 | Featherhead | featherhead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 absurd | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fall | punct |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 fall | aux |
| 19 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 think | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 love | case |
| 21 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fall | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 portrait | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 portrait | det |
| 24 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fall | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 drive | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 drive | cc |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 drive | punct |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 drive | mark |
| 29 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | parataxis |
| 30 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 drive | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 recollections | det |
| 32 | recollections | recollection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 drive | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 eyes | case |
| 34 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 35 | haunting | haunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 eyes | compound |
| 36 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 recollections | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 rushed | punct |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 rushed | nsubj |
| 39 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | parataxis |
| 40 | back | back | ADV | _ | 39 rushed | advmod |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 town | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 town | det |
| 43 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 rushed | obl |
| 44 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 49 changed | punct |
| 45 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 49 changed | cc |
| 46 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 49 changed | advmod |
| 47 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 49 changed | nsubj:pass |
| 48 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 changed | aux:pass |
| 49 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 began | parataxis |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | message | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | message not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | portrait | that message; absurd property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fall | should | message not said here | love | with a portrait | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | |||
| 5 | drive away | to-infinitive | the recollections of portrait's haunting eyes | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme recollection=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | rush back | past | message | to the town result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to town=Result | ||||
| 7 | change | past · passive | everything | somehow property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 8 | recollect | portrait's haunting eyes | nom recollection «cognition 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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