The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 88

And oh!’ concluded the Princess, ‘how delightful it is once more to be able to sit still in peace.

Who acts: lion · What happens: conclude, be, sit · To what, where: Princess, peace

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (lion), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 concluded	cc
2	oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 concluded	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 oh	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 oh	punct
5	concluded	conclude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Princess	det
7	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 concluded	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 delightful	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 delightful	punct
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 delightful	advmod
11	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 concluded	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 more	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 more	cop
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 more	advmod
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 delightful	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	18 able	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 able	cop
18	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 more	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 sit	mark
20	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 able	xcomp
21	still	still	ADV	_	20 sit	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 peace	case
23	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sit	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 concluded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conclude	past		the Princess				vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme
2	is	present	lion				more, once property	tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive	lion not said here				able property	tree rules
4	sit	to-infinitive	lion not said here		peace	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in peace=Location

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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