The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 50
The reading of this letter embarrassed and displeased Farda-Kinbras and Birbantine immensely, while the Princess was furious at the insolence of the demand.
Who acts: reading, Princess · What happens: embarrass, displease, be, read · To what, where: Farda, insolence, letter
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reading, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 reading | det |
| 2 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 embarrassed | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 letter | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 letter | det |
| 5 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reading | nmod |
| 6 | embarrassed | embarrass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 displeased | cc |
| 8 | displeased | displease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 embarrassed | conj |
| 9 | Farda | Farda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 displeased | obj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Kinbras | punct |
| 11 | Kinbras | Kinbras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Farda | flat |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Birbantine | cc |
| 13 | Birbantine | Birbantine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Farda | conj |
| 14 | immensely | immensely | ADV | _ | 8 displeased | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 furious | punct |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 furious | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Princess | det |
| 18 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 furious | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 furious | cop |
| 20 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 displeased | parataxis |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 insolence | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 insolence | det |
| 23 | insolence | insolence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 furious | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 demand | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 demand | det |
| 26 | demand | demand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 insolence | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 embarrassed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embarrass | past | the reading of this letter | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | displease | past | the reading of this letter not said here | Farda and Birbantine | immensely property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus farda=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | is | past | the Princess | the insolence of the demand | furious property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | read | this letter | nom reading «cognition 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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