The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 78
More surprised than ever, the Princess asked to be allowed to see the portrait, and after examining it for a few minutes returned it, remarking shyly that at least the original had every cause to be satisfied with it.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: ask, allow, see, examine, return, remark · To what, where: portrait, cause, least · 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 (Princess), 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 | More | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 surprised | advmod |
| 2 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | than | than | ADP | _ | 4 ever | case |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 2 surprised | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Princess | det |
| 7 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 surprised | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 allowed | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 allowed | aux:pass |
| 11 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 see | mark |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 allowed | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 portrait | det |
| 15 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 returned | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 returned | cc |
| 18 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 19 examining | mark |
| 19 | examining | examine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 returned | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 examining | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 minutes | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 minutes | det |
| 23 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 minutes | amod |
| 24 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 examining | obl |
| 25 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 returned | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 remarking | punct |
| 28 | remarking | remark | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 returned | advcl |
| 29 | shyly | shyly | ADV | _ | 28 remarking | advmod |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 had | mark |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 least | case |
| 32 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 35 had | obl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 original | det |
| 34 | original | original | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 least | obj |
| 35 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 remarking | advcl |
| 36 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 cause | det |
| 37 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 had | obj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 satisfied | mark |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 satisfied | cop |
| 40 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 cause | acl |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 it | case |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 satisfied | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the Princess | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | allow not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | the portrait | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer portrait=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | examine | gerund | portrait | minute | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | return | past | the Princess not said here | portrait | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | remark speech: assert | gerund | the Princess not said here | shyly property | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | have | past | the Princess not said here | every cause | least | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Patient | |||
| 8 | is | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | every cause not said here | with lovely original = original; satisfied property | tree rules |
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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