The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 71
At last she found an opportunity of asking him the name of the Princess whose picture he carried about with him always.
Who acts: Judge, opportunity, Featherhead · What happens: find, ask, carry, name · To what, where: opportunity, last, name, Featherhead, picture, Princess
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 (Judge, opportunity, Featherhead), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 found | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 found | nsubj |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 opportunity | det |
| 6 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obj |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 asking | mark |
| 8 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 opportunity | acl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asking | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 name | det |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asking | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Princess | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Princess | det |
| 14 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 name | nmod |
| 15 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 16 picture | nmod:poss |
| 16 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 name | nmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 carried | nsubj |
| 18 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 picture | acl:relcl |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 18 carried | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 carried | obl |
| 22 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 18 carried | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Judge | a opportunity | last | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme at last=Asset | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | a opportunity not said here | the name of the Princess the name of the Princess the name's picture's picture | Featherhead | tree rules | |||
| 3 | carry | past | Featherhead | the name of the Princess the name of the Princess picture's picture's picture not said here | with message; about, always property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme | |||
| 4 | name | the Princess | nom name «communication 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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