The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 44
Prince Fickle was enchanted to see her again, and she seemed to him even more beautiful than she had been the night before.
Who acts: Fickle · What happens: enchant, see, seem, be · To what, where: Fickle, Prince
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 (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 | 4 enchanted | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 enchanted | aux:pass |
| 4 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 enchanted | xcomp |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 see | obj |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 see | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seemed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 seemed | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 seemed | nsubj |
| 12 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 enchanted | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 seemed | obl |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 more | advmod |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 beautiful | advmod |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 seemed | xcomp |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 night | case |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 night | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 night | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 night | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 night | det |
| 23 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 beautiful | obl |
| 24 | before | before | ADV | _ | 23 night | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 enchanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enchant | past · passive | Fickle Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Fickle | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | Fickle | Prince | beautiful property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | past · perfect | Fickle | than the night | before 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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