The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 128
So that whether he happened to be cross or amiable, splendidly or simply attired, serious or frivolous, he was always perfectly irresistible!
Who acts: Prince · What happens: happen, be, attire
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 happened | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 happened | mark |
| 3 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 5 happened | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 happened | nsubj |
| 5 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 cross | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 cross | cop |
| 8 | cross | cross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 happened | advcl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 amiable | cc |
| 10 | amiable | amiable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cross | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 attired | punct |
| 12 | splendidly | splendidly | ADV | _ | 15 attired | advmod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 attired | cc |
| 14 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 15 attired | advmod |
| 15 | attired | attire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 happened | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 serious | punct |
| 17 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 attired | conj |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 frivolous | cc |
| 19 | frivolous | frivolous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 serious | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 irresistible | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 irresistible | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 irresistible | cop |
| 23 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 25 irresistible | advmod |
| 24 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 25 irresistible | advmod |
| 25 | irresistible | irresistible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 serious | conj |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | Prince | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | cross property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Prince not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | attire | participle | simply, splendidly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | Prince | always, irresistible, perfectly 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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