The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 103
With his huge club he aimed a terrific blow at Narcissus, which must certainly have killed him but for the adroitness of the Fairy Melinette, who arrived upon the scene just in time to snatch him up and carry him off at lightning speed to her castle in the air.
Who acts: enchanter, adroitness · What happens: aim, kill, arrive, snatch up, carry off · To what, where: terrific blow, Narcissus, enchanter, lightning speed
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 (enchanter, adroitness), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 club | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 club | nmod:poss |
| 3 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 club | amod |
| 4 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 aimed | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 aimed | nsubj |
| 6 | aimed | aim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 blow | det |
| 8 | terrific | terrific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 blow | amod |
| 9 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 aimed | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 Narcissus | case |
| 11 | Narcissus | Narcissus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 blow | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 killed | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 killed | aux |
| 15 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 17 killed | advmod |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 killed | aux |
| 17 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 blow | acl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 killed | obj |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 adroitness | cc |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 adroitness | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 adroitness | det |
| 22 | adroitness | adroitness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 killed | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Fairy | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Fairy | det |
| 25 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 adroitness | nmod |
| 26 | Melinette | Melinette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Fairy | flat |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 arrived | punct |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 arrived | nsubj |
| 29 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 adroitness | parataxis |
| 30 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 32 scene | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 scene | det |
| 32 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 arrived | obl |
| 33 | just | just | ADV | _ | 35 time | advmod |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 time | case |
| 35 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 scene | appos |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 snatch | mark |
| 37 | snatch | snatch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 time | acl |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 snatch | obj |
| 39 | up | up | ADP | _ | 37 snatch | compound:prt |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 carry | cc |
| 41 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 snatch | conj |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 carry | obj |
| 43 | off | off | ADP | _ | 41 carry | compound:prt |
| 44 | at | at | ADP | _ | 46 speed | case |
| 45 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 speed | compound |
| 46 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 carry | obl |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 castle | case |
| 48 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 castle | nmod:poss |
| 49 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 carry | obl |
| 50 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 air | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 air | det |
| 52 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 castle | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 aimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aim | past | enchanter | a terrific blow | Narcissus | with enchanter's huge club | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot blow=Theme | ||
| 2 | kill | must · perfect · passive | a terrific blow | certainly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result | ||||
| 3 | arrive | past | the adroitness of the Fairy | upon the scene | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | snatch up | to-infinitive | the adroitness of the Fairy not said here | enchanter | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | carry off | infinitive | the adroitness of the Fairy not said here | enchanter | lightning speed | to Fairy's castle in the air | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to castle=Destination |
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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