The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 39
Prince Fickle, too, was quite dazzled by the charms of the beautiful maiden, and never guessed that she had once been his own ladylove.
Who acts: charms, Fickle · What happens: dazzle, not guess, have, be · To what, where: Fickle, own ladylove · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (charms, Fickle), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Fickle | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Fickle | Fickle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 dazzled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fickle | punct |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 Fickle | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fickle | punct |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dazzled | aux:pass |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 dazzled | advmod |
| 8 | dazzled | dazzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 charms | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 charms | det |
| 11 | charms | charm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dazzled | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 maiden | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 maiden | det |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 maiden | amod |
| 15 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 charms | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 guessed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 guessed | cc |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 guessed | advmod |
| 19 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dazzled | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 had | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 guessed | ccomp |
| 23 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 27 ladylove | advmod |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 ladylove | cop |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 ladylove | nmod:poss |
| 26 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 ladylove | amod |
| 27 | ladylove | ladylove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 dazzled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dazzle | past · passive | the charms of the beautiful maiden | Fickle Prince | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not guess | past | the charms of the beautiful maiden not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | past | Fickle | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | participle | Prince's own ladylove | once 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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