The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 129

When they said that a visitor was asking for her, and then proceeded each one to tell breathlessly a different tale of wonder, in which she could only distinguish the words, ‘oxen,’ ‘gold,’ ‘club,’ ‘giant,’ ‘lion,’ she thought they were all out of their minds.

Who acts: laughter, visitor, Queen, wonder · What happens: say, ask, proceed, tell, distinguish, think · To what, where: one, different tale, words, lion, minds · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (laughter, visitor, Queen, wonder), 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 said	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 thought	advcl
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 asking	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 visitor	det
6	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asking	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 asking	aux
8	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 said	ccomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 asking	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 proceeded	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 proceeded	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 proceeded	advmod
14	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 one	det
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 proceeded	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 tell	mark
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 proceeded	xcomp
19	breathlessly	breathlessly	ADV	_	18 tell	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 tale	det
21	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tale	amod
22	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tell	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 wonder	case
24	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tale	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 distinguish	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 distinguish	obl
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 distinguish	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 distinguish	aux
30	only	only	ADV	_	31 distinguish	advmod
31	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 tell	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 words	det
33	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 distinguish	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 oxen	punct
35	‘	'	PUNCT	_	36 oxen	punct
36	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 words	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
39	‘	'	PUNCT	_	40 gold	punct
40	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 club	compound
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 gold	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	40 gold	punct
43	‘	'	PUNCT	_	44 club	punct
44	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 club	punct
46	’	'	PUNCT	_	44 club	punct
47	‘	'	PUNCT	_	48 giant	punct
48	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 club	acl:relcl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
50	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
51	‘	'	PUNCT	_	52 lion	punct
52	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 thought	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 lion	punct
54	’	'	PUNCT	_	52 lion	punct
55	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 thought	nsubj
56	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
57	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 minds	nsubj
58	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 minds	cop
59	all	all	ADV	_	63 minds	advmod
60	out	out	ADP	_	63 minds	case
61	of	of	ADP	_	63 minds	case
62	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 minds	nmod:poss
63	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 thought	ccomp
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	56 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	laughter					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	ask speech: ask	past · progressive	a visitor				for Queen	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	proceed	past	laughter not said here	each one		then		tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	laughter not said here	a different tale of wonder			breathlessly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
5	distinguish	could	Queen	the words and oxen				vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute word=Theme
6	think speech: other	past	Queen	lion				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	laughter		laughter's minds		all property	tree rules
8	tell		wonder					nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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