The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 112

This was drawn with great difficulty by forty-eight strong oxen; and the Enchanter reclined at his ease, leaning upon his huge club, and holding carelessly upon his knee a tawny African lion, as if it had been a little lapdog.

Who acts: forty strong oxen, Enchanter, knee · What happens: draw, recline, lean, hold, be · To what, where: This, ease, huge club, tawny African lion, knee, little lapdog

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 (forty strong oxen, Enchanter, knee), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 drawn	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drawn	aux:pass
3	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 difficulty	case
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 difficulty	amod
6	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drawn	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	12 oxen	case
8	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 oxen	nummod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 eight	punct
10	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 forty	conj
11	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 oxen	amod
12	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drawn	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 reclined	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 reclined	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Enchanter	det
16	Enchanter	Enchanter	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 reclined	nsubj
17	reclined	recline	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drawn	conj
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 ease	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 ease	nmod:poss
20	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 reclined	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 leaning	punct
22	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 reclined	advcl
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	26 club	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 club	nmod:poss
25	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 club	amod
26	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 leaning	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 holding	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 holding	cc
29	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 drawn	advcl
30	carelessly	carelessly	ADV	_	29 holding	advmod
31	upon	upon	ADP	_	33 knee	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 knee	nmod:poss
33	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 holding	obl
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 lion	det
35	tawny	tawny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 lion	amod
36	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 lion	amod
37	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 holding	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 lapdog	punct
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	46 lapdog	mark
40	if	if	SCONJ	_	46 lapdog	mark
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 lapdog	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 lapdog	aux
43	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	46 lapdog	cop
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 lapdog	det
45	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 lapdog	amod
46	lapdog	lapdog	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lion	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drawn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past · passive	forty strong oxen	This		with great difficulty	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	recline	past	the Enchanter		enchanter's ease		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at ease=Location
3	lean	gerund	the Enchanter not said here		enchanter's huge club		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon club=Location
4	hold	gerund	forty strong oxen not said here	a tawny African lion and a little lapdog	enchanter's knee	carelessly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lion=Theme upon knee=Location
5	is a a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	knee	a little lapdog			tree rules

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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