The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 13

Things were in this state, and the Princess was about fifteen years old, when Prince Narcissus, attracted by the report of Queen Frivola’s gay doings, presented himself at the court.

Who acts: Things, Princess · What happens: be, attract, present, report · To what, where: state, Frivola, court, gay doings

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 (Things, Princess), 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	Things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 state	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 state	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 state	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 state	det
5	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 old	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 old	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Princess	det
9	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 old	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 old	cop
11	about	about	ADV	_	12 fifteen	advmod
12	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 old	obl:unmarked
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 state	amod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Narcissus	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 Narcissus	advmod
17	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Narcissus	nmod:desc
18	Narcissus	Narcissus	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 old	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 attracted	punct
20	attracted	attract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 state	acl
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 report	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 report	det
23	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 attracted	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	29 doings	case
25	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Frivola	nmod:desc
26	Frivola	Frivola	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 doings	nmod:poss
27	’s	's	PART	_	26 Frivola	case
28	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 doings	amod
29	doings	doing	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 report	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 presented	punct
31	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 state	conj
32	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 presented	obj
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 court	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 court	det
35	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 presented	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 state	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Things		this state			tree rules
2	is	past	the Princess			year	Narcissus Prince obl; old property	tree rules
3	attract	participle		this state not said here			by the report of Frivola Queen's gay doings	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	present	past	Things not said here	Frivola	the court			vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
5	report			Frivola Queen's gay doings				nom report «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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