The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 64
Meanwhile, the Princess Celandine had been finding the time pass but slowly with the King and Queen, and was only too pleased when Featherhead reappeared.
Who acts: Princess Celandine, Featherhead · What happens: find, pass, be, reappear
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 (Princess Celandine, Featherhead), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 8 finding | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meanwhile | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Celandine | det |
| 4 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Celandine | compound |
| 5 | Celandine | Celandine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 finding | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 finding | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 finding | aux |
| 8 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pass | obj |
| 11 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 finding | xcomp |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 slowly | cc |
| 13 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 11 pass | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 King | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 pass | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Queen | cc |
| 18 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 King | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 pleased | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 pleased | cc |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 pleased | cop |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 pleased | advmod |
| 23 | too | too | ADV | _ | 24 pleased | advmod |
| 24 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 finding | conj |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 reappeared | advmod |
| 26 | Featherhead | featherhead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 reappeared | nsubj |
| 27 | reappeared | reappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 pleased | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 finding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · perfect · progressive | the Princess Celandine | meanwhile property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pass | infinitive | the Princess Celandine not said here | time | with the King and Queen | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | the Princess Celandine not said here | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | reappear | past | Featherhead | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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