The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 65
She at once noticed the change in him, and was deeply curious to find the reason of it.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: notice, be, find · To what, where: change, reason
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 (Queen), 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 | 4 noticed | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 once | case |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 noticed | obl |
| 4 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 change | det |
| 6 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 noticed | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 change | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 curious | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 curious | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 curious | cop |
| 12 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 13 curious | advmod |
| 13 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 noticed | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 find | mark |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 curious | csubj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 reason | det |
| 17 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 find | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 reason | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | Queen | the change | in message | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer change=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | past | curious, deeply property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | the reason of reason | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Topic |
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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