The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 66

Far from avoiding her, he now sought her company and seemed to take pleasure in talking to her, and yet the Princess did not for a moment flatter herself with the idea that he was in love with her, though it did not take her long to decide that he certainly loved someone.

Who acts: message, Princess, it · What happens: avoid, seek, seem, take, talk, not do · To what, where: Queen, company, pleasure, idea, love, someone · 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, Princess, it), 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	Far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 sought	advmod
2	from	from	SCONJ	_	3 avoiding	mark
3	avoiding	avoid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Far	advcl
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 avoiding	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Far	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sought	nsubj
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 sought	advmod
8	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 company	nmod:poss
10	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sought	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 seemed	cc
12	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sought	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 take	mark
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 seemed	xcomp
15	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obj
16	in	in	SCONJ	_	17 talking	mark
17	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 take	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 talking	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 did	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 did	cc
22	yet	yet	ADV	_	25 did	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Princess	det
24	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 did	nsubj
25	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sought	conj
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 did	advmod
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 moment	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 moment	det
29	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 did	obl
30	flatter	flat	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 moment	amod
31	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 flatter	obl
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 idea	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 idea	det
34	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 did	obl
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 love	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 love	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 love	cop
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 love	case
39	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 idea	acl
40	with	with	ADP	_	41 her	case
41	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 love	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 take	punct
43	though	though	SCONJ	_	47 take	mark
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 take	nsubj
45	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 take	aux
46	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 take	advmod
47	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 sought	parataxis
48	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 long	nmod:poss
49	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 take	advmod
50	to	to	PART	_	51 decide	mark
51	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 long	advcl
52	that	that	SCONJ	_	55 loved	mark
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 loved	nsubj
54	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	55 loved	advmod
55	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 decide	ccomp
56	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	55 loved	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avoid	gerund	message not said here	Queen					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent she=Location
2	seek	past	message	Queen's company			now	far property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Theme
3	seem	past	message not said here						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	take	to-infinitive	message not said here	pleasure					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Theme
5	talk	gerund	message not said here		Queen				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent
6	not do	past	the Princess				yet; moment	with the idea	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	message	the idea not said here		love		with Queen	tree rules
8	not take	past · do-support	it						vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	decide	to-infinitive							vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	love	past	message	someone				certainly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus

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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