The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 12
And this tale she repeated so often, that at last the whole court believed it.
Who acts: tale, whole court · What happens: repeat, believe · To what, where: last, head
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 (tale, whole court), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 repeated | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 tale | det |
| 3 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 repeated | nsubj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 repeated | nsubj |
| 5 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 often | advmod |
| 7 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 repeated | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 last | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 last | nsubj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 last | case |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 repeated | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 court | det |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 court | amod |
| 14 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 believed | nsubj |
| 15 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 last | acl:relcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 believed | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | past | this tale | last | often property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | believe | past | the whole court | head | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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