The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 67
But one day the Princess, wandering sadly by the river, spied Prince Featherhead fast asleep in the shade of a tree, and stole nearer to enjoy the delight of gazing at his dear face unobserved.
Who acts: Princess, delight · What happens: wonder, spy, steal, enjoy, gaze, unobserv · To what, where: Prince Featherhead, delight, dear face, tree
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, delight), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 spied | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spied | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Princess | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 day | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wandering | punct |
| 7 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 Princess | acl |
| 8 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 7 wandering | advmod |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 river | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 river | det |
| 11 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wandering | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 13 | spied | spy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Featherhead | compound |
| 15 | Featherhead | featherhead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spied | obj |
| 16 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 asleep | advmod |
| 17 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Featherhead | amod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 shade | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 shade | det |
| 20 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 asleep | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 tree | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 tree | det |
| 23 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shade | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 stole | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 stole | cc |
| 26 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 spied | conj |
| 27 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 stole | xcomp |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 enjoy | mark |
| 29 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 stole | xcomp |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 delight | det |
| 31 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 enjoy | obj |
| 32 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 33 gazing | mark |
| 33 | gazing | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 delight | acl |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 face | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 face | nmod:poss |
| 36 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 face | amod |
| 37 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 gazing | obl |
| 38 | unobserved | unobserv | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 face | acl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 spied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | the Princess not said here | by the river; sadly property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | spy | past | Prince Featherhead | day | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer featherhead=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | steal | past | near property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | enjoy | to-infinitive | the delight | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer delight=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | gaze | gerund | the delight not said here | at Featherhead's dear face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at face=Theme | ||||
| 6 | unobserv | participle | Featherhead's dear face not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | shade | a tree | nom shade «state 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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