The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 87
Now the Princess was indeed unhappy, and could no longer bear to stay in a place where she had been so cruelly disdained.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: be, stay, disdain · To what, where: place, 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 (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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 unhappy | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 unhappy | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 unhappy | cop |
| 5 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 6 unhappy | advmod |
| 6 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bear | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bear | cc |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 bear | aux |
| 10 | no | no | ADV | _ | 11 longer | advmod |
| 11 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 bear | advmod |
| 12 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 unhappy | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 stay | mark |
| 14 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 bear | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 place | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 place | det |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stay | obl |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 disdained | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 disdained | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 disdained | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 disdained | aux:pass |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 disdained | advmod |
| 23 | cruelly | cruelly | ADV | _ | 24 disdained | advmod |
| 24 | disdained | disdain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 place | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 unhappy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Princess | now | indeed, unhappy property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stay | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | a place | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location | ||||
| 3 | disdain | past · perfect · passive | Princess | cruelly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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