The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 100

Potentilla could scarcely hide her delight when she heard this, and his back was hardly turned before she was entreating Prince Narcissus to make himself visible once more.

Who acts: Potentilla · What happens: hide, hear, turn, entreat, make, delight · To what, where: delight, this, back, Narcissus, enchanter

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Potentilla), 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	Potentilla	potentilla	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hide	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hide	aux
3	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	4 hide	advmod
4	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 delight	nmod:poss
6	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hide	obj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 heard	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heard	nsubj
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hide	parataxis
10	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 heard	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 turned	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 turned	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 back	nmod:poss
14	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 turned	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 turned	aux:pass
16	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	17 turned	advmod
17	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 heard	conj
18	before	before	SCONJ	_	21 entreating	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 entreating	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 entreating	aux
21	entreating	entreat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 turned	advcl
22	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Narcissus	nmod:desc
23	Narcissus	Narcissus	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 entreating	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 make	mark
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 entreating	advcl
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 make	obj
27	visible	visible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 make	xcomp
28	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	29 more	advmod
29	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 make	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hide	could	Potentilla	Potentilla's delight		scarcely property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent delight=Patient
2	hear	past	Potentilla	this			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
3	turn	past · passive		enchanter's back		hardly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
4	entreat	past · progressive	Potentilla		Narcissus Prince		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent narcissus=Recipient
5	make	to-infinitive	Potentilla not said here	enchanter		visible property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product
6	delight		Potentilla				nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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