The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 70
Why did he cherish her portrait while he was so fatally indifferent to herself?
Who acts: Featherhead, Judge · What happens: cherish, be, portray · To what, where: portrait, Judge
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 (Featherhead, Judge), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 cherish | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cherish | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cherish | nsubj |
| 4 | cherish | cherish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 portrait | nmod:poss |
| 6 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cherish | obj |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 indifferent | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 indifferent | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 indifferent | cop |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 indifferent | advmod |
| 11 | fatally | fatally | ADV | _ | 12 indifferent | advmod |
| 12 | indifferent | indifferent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cherish | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 herself | case |
| 14 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 indifferent | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 cherish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cherish | past · do-support | Featherhead | Judge's portrait | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer portrait=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Featherhead | Judge | fatally, indifferent property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | portray | Judge | nom portrait «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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