The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 105
When she recovered her senses she was more than ever convinced that he was dead, since even Melinette was no longer near her, and no one was left to defend her from the odious old Enchanter.
Who acts: Potentilla, enchanter, Melinette · What happens: recover, be, leave, defend · To what, where: senses, one, Potentilla
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, enchanter, Melinette), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 recovered | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 recovered | nsubj |
| 3 | recovered | recover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 senses | nmod:poss |
| 5 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 recovered | obj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 more | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 more | cop |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 recovered | obj |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 convinced | case |
| 10 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 convinced | advmod |
| 11 | convinced | convinced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 more | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 dead | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 dead | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 dead | cop |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 convinced | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 her | punct |
| 17 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 24 her | mark |
| 18 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 Melinette | advmod |
| 19 | Melinette | Melinette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 her | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 her | cop |
| 21 | no | no | ADV | _ | 22 longer | advmod |
| 22 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 her | advmod |
| 23 | near | near | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 recovered | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 left | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 left | cc |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 one | det |
| 28 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 left | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 left | aux:pass |
| 30 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 recovered | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 defend | mark |
| 32 | defend | defend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 left | advcl |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 defend | obj |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 Enchanter | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Enchanter | det |
| 36 | odious | odious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 Enchanter | amod |
| 37 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 Enchanter | amod |
| 38 | Enchanter | Enchanter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 defend | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 recovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recover | past | Potentilla | Potentilla's senses | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sens=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Potentilla | more property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Potentilla not said here | ever | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | past | enchanter | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | Melinette | near Melinette; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | leave | past · passive | no one | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 7 | defend | to-infinitive | Potentilla | from the odious old Enchanter | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary from enchanter=Theme |
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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