The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 48
The haughty Princess, however, on hearing that he was not her equal by birth despised him, and exacted the fulfilment of a second task.
Who acts: hearing, haughty Princess · What happens: not be, despise, exact, fulfil · To what, where: hearing, fulfilment, second task
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hearing, haughty Princess), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 2 | haughty | haughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Princess | amod |
| 3 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 despised | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Princess | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 17 despised | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 hearing | case |
| 8 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 despised | nsubj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 equal | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 equal | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 equal | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 equal | advmod |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 equal | nmod:poss |
| 14 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hearing | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 birth | case |
| 16 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 equal | obl |
| 17 | despised | despise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 despised | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 exacted | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 exacted | cc |
| 21 | exacted | exact | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 despised | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fulfilment | det |
| 23 | fulfilment | fulfilment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 exacted | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 task | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 task | det |
| 26 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 27 task | amod |
| 27 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fulfilment | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 despised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | hearing | hearing not said here | by birth; equal property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | despise | past | the haughty Princess | hearing | however property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | exact | past | the haughty Princess not said here | the fulfilment of a second task | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fulfilment=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fulfil | a second task | nom fulfilment «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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