The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 101
The poor Prince had been getting quite thin with anxiety and annoyance, and was only too delighted to comply with her request.
Who acts: poor Prince, Potentilla · What happens: get, be, comply, request
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 (poor Prince, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Prince | amod |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 getting | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 getting | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 getting | aux |
| 6 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 thin | advmod |
| 8 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 getting | xcomp |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 anxiety | case |
| 10 | anxiety | anxiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thin | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 annoyance | cc |
| 12 | annoyance | annoyance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 anxiety | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 delighted | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 delighted | cc |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 delighted | cop |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 delighted | advmod |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 delighted | advmod |
| 18 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 getting | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 comply | mark |
| 20 | comply | comply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 delighted | advcl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 request | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 request | nmod:poss |
| 23 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 comply | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 getting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect · progressive | the poor Prince | thin property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the poor Prince not said here | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | comply | to-infinitive | the poor Prince not said here | with Potentilla's request | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | request | Potentilla | nom request «communication transitive»: 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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