The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 102
They greeted one another rapturously, and were just sitting down to talk over everything cosily, and enjoy the Enchanter’s discomfiture together, when out he burst in a fury from behind a bush.
Who acts: anxiety, enchanter · What happens: greet, sit down, talk, enjoy, burst, discomfit · To what, where: one, everything, discomfiture, fury
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 (anxiety, enchanter), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 greeted | nsubj |
| 2 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 greeted | obj |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 one | fixed |
| 5 | rapturously | rapturously | ADV | _ | 2 greeted | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sitting | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sitting | cc |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sitting | aux |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 sitting | advmod |
| 10 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 greeted | advcl |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 sitting | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 talk | mark |
| 13 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sitting | advcl |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 everything | case |
| 15 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 13 talk | obl |
| 16 | cosily | cosily | ADV | _ | 13 talk | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 enjoy | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 enjoy | cc |
| 19 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 greeted | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Enchanter | det |
| 21 | Enchanter | Enchanter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 discomfiture | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 Enchanter | case |
| 23 | discomfiture | discomfiture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 enjoy | obj |
| 24 | together | together | ADV | _ | 19 enjoy | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 burst | punct |
| 26 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 29 burst | mark |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 when | compound:prt |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 burst | nsubj |
| 29 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 enjoy | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 fury | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 fury | det |
| 32 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 burst | obl |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 bush | case |
| 34 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 36 bush | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 bush | det |
| 36 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 burst | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 greeted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | greet speech: greet | past | anxiety | one | rapturously property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 2 | sit down | past · progressive | anxiety not said here | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | talk | to-infinitive | anxiety not said here | everything | cosily property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | enjoy | infinitive | the Enchanter's discomfiture | together property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer discomfiture=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | burst | past | enchanter | a fury | from a bush | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fury=Location | |||
| 6 | discomfit | the Enchanter | nom discomfiture «feeling 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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