The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 69
In vain did she puzzle over the apparent contradictoriness of his behaviour.
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 puzzle | case |
| 2 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 puzzle | amod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 puzzle | aux |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 puzzle | compound |
| 5 | puzzle | puzzle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 contradictoriness | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 contradictoriness | det |
| 8 | apparent | apparent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 contradictoriness | amod |
| 9 | contradictoriness | contradictoriness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 puzzle | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 behaviour | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 behaviour | nmod:poss |
| 12 | behaviour | behaviour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 contradictoriness | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 puzzle | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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