The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 104
Poor Potentilla, however, had not the comfort of knowing this, for at the sight of the Enchanter threatening her beloved Prince she had given one shriek and fallen back insensible.
Who acts: Poor Potentilla, comfort, Enchanter, Potentilla · What happens: have, know, threaten, give, fall back, sight · To what, where: comfort, this, beloved Prince, one shriek, 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 (Poor Potentilla, comfort, Enchanter, 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 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Potentilla | amod |
| 2 | Potentilla | Potentilla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Potentilla | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 had | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 comfort | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 comfort | det |
| 9 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 knowing | case |
| 11 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 comfort | acl |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 knowing | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sight | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 sight | case |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 sight | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sight | det |
| 17 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Enchanter | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Enchanter | det |
| 20 | Enchanter | enchanter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sight | nmod |
| 21 | threatening | threaten | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 Enchanter | acl |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 Prince | nmod:poss |
| 23 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Prince | amod |
| 24 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 threatening | obj |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 given | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 given | aux |
| 27 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 threatening | advcl |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 shriek | nummod |
| 29 | shriek | shriek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 given | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 fallen | cc |
| 31 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 given | conj |
| 32 | back | back | ADV | _ | 31 fallen | advmod |
| 33 | insensible | insensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 fallen | xcomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Poor Potentilla | the comfort | for the sight of the Enchanter; however property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comfort=Patient | |||
| 2 | know | gerund | the comfort not said here | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | threaten | gerund | the Enchanter not said here | Potentilla's beloved Prince | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus prince=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | give | past · perfect | Potentilla | one shriek | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shriek=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fall back | participle | Potentilla not said here | insensible property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | sight | the Enchanter | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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