The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 4
However, it was not to be expected such good fortune could last, and before very long the Queen had a lovely little daughter who was named Placida.
Who acts: such good fortune, Queen · What happens: not expect, last, have, name · To what, where: thing, lovely little daughter
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 (such good fortune, Queen), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 8 expected | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 expected | aux:pass |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 expected | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 expected | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 expected | aux:pass |
| 8 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 last | advcl |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fortune | amod |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fortune | amod |
| 11 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 last | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 last | aux |
| 13 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 had | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 had | cc |
| 16 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 long | case |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 long | advmod |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 had | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Queen | det |
| 20 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 last | parataxis |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 daughter | det |
| 23 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 daughter | amod |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 daughter | amod |
| 25 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obj |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 named | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 named | aux:pass |
| 28 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 29 | Placida | Placida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 named | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 last | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not expect | past · passive | thing | however property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | last | could | such good fortune | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | past | the Queen | a lovely little daughter | before long | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | |||
| 4 | name | past · passive | a lovely little daughter | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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