The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 115
Meantime the Enchanter was stumping about in the hall, crying:
Who acts: Meantime · What happens: stump, cry
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 (Meantime), 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 | Meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stumping | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Enchanter | det |
| 3 | Enchanter | Enchanter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stumping | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stumping | aux |
| 5 | stumping | stump | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 hall | case |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hall | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hall | det |
| 9 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stumping | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 crying | punct |
| 11 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 stumping | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 stumping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stump | past · progressive | Meantime | about the hall | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about hall=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | gerund | Meantime not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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