The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 17
He very soon found out that in addition to her natural indolence, she was being as much indulged and spoilt day by day as if the Fairy had been her grandmother, and was obliged to remonstrate very seriously upon the subject.
Who acts: Vivien, Fairy · What happens: find out, be, spoil, oblige, remonstrate · To what, where: Placida, addition, grandmother
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vivien, Fairy), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 found | nsubj |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 found | advmod |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 found | advmod |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 found | compound:prt |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 indulged | mark |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 addition | case |
| 8 | addition | addition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 indulged | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 indolence | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 indolence | nmod:poss |
| 11 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 indolence | amod |
| 12 | indolence | indolence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 addition | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 addition | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 indulged | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 indulged | cop |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 indulged | aux:pass |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 much | advmod |
| 18 | much | much | ADV | _ | 19 indulged | advmod |
| 19 | indulged | indulge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 found | advcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 spoilt | cc |
| 21 | spoilt | spoil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 indulged | conj |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spoilt | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 day | case |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spoilt | obl |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 grandmother | mark |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 grandmother | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Fairy | det |
| 28 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 grandmother | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 grandmother | aux |
| 30 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 grandmother | cop |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 32 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spoilt | advcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 obliged | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 obliged | cc |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 obliged | aux:pass |
| 36 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 found | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 remonstrate | mark |
| 38 | remonstrate | remonstrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 obliged | xcomp |
| 39 | very | very | ADV | _ | 40 seriously | advmod |
| 40 | seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 38 remonstrate | advmod |
| 41 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 43 subject | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 subject | det |
| 43 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 remonstrate | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out | participle | Vivien | soon property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past · passive | Placida | addition to Placida's natural indolence | indulge property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | spoil | participle | day | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is a | past · perfect | the Fairy | Placida's grandmother | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | oblige | past · passive | Vivien not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result | |||||
| 6 | remonstrate | to-infinitive | Vivien not said here | upon the subject; seriously property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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