The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 63

The beauties no longer pleased him, their witty speeches had ceased to amuse; and indeed, for their parts, they found the Prince far less amiable than of yore, and were not sorry when he declared that, after all, a country life suited him best, and went back to the Leafy Palace.

Who acts: speeches, message, country life, eyes · What happens: cease, amuse, find, not be, declare, suit · To what, where: beauties, Prince, that, message · 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 (speeches, message, country life, eyes), 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 beauties	det
2	beauties	beauty	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ceased	nsubj:pass
3	no	no	ADV	_	4 longer	advmod
4	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 pleased	advmod
5	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 beauties	amod
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pleased	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 beauties	punct
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 speeches	nmod:poss
9	witty	witty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 speeches	amod
10	speeches	speech	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ceased	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ceased	aux
12	ceased	cease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 amuse	mark
14	amuse	amuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 ceased	xcomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 indeed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 indeed	cc
17	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	12 ceased	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 parts	punct
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 parts	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 parts	nmod:poss
21	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ceased	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 found	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 found	nsubj
24	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ceased	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Prince	det
26	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 found	obj
27	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 less	advmod
28	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 amiable	advmod
29	amiable	amiable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 found	ccomp
30	than	than	ADP	_	32 yore	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 yore	case
32	yore	yore	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 amiable	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 sorry	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 sorry	cc
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 sorry	cop
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 sorry	advmod
37	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 found	conj
38	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	40 declared	advmod
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 declared	nsubj
40	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 sorry	advcl
41	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 declared	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 suited	punct
43	after	after	ADP	_	44 all	case
44	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	49 suited	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 all	punct
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 life	det
47	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 life	compound
48	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 suited	nsubj
49	suited	suit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 found	conj
50	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 suited	obj
51	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	49 suited	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 went	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 went	cc
54	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 found	conj
55	back	back	ADV	_	54 went	advmod
56	to	to	ADP	_	59 Palace	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 Palace	det
58	Leafy	Leafy	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 Palace	compound
59	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 went	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 ceased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cease	past · perfect · passive		the beauties		for eyes's parts; indeed property	tree rules
2	amuse	to-infinitive					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	find	past	speeches = speech	the Prince			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Topic
4	not is	past	speeches = speech not said here			sorry property	tree rules
5	declare speech: other	past	message	that			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Attribute
6	suit	past	a country life	message	after all	best obl	tree rules
7	go back	past	speeches = speech not said here			to the Leafy Palace result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result
8	speak		eyes = eye				nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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