The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 80
‘Really, Celandine, I thought better of you, and should have expected you to be above such contemptible jealousy.
Who acts: Celandine · What happens: think, expect, be · To what, where: you, such contemptible jealousy
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 (Celandine), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
| 2 | Really | really | ADV | _ | 4 Celandine | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Celandine | punct |
| 4 | Celandine | Celandine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Celandine | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 thought | nsubj |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 thought | xcomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 better | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 expected | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 expected | cc |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 expected | aux |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 expected | aux |
| 15 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 thought | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 expected | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 jealousy | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 jealousy | cop |
| 19 | above | above | ADP | _ | 22 jealousy | case |
| 20 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 jealousy | amod |
| 21 | contemptible | contemptible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 jealousy | amod |
| 22 | jealousy | jealousy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 expected | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Celandine | good property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | expect | should · perfect | Celandine not said here | you | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | Celandine not said here | such contemptible jealousy | 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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