The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 131
But Frivola was in a very bad humour at having been so unceremoniously awakened, and declared that she had a pain in her little finger, and that nothing should induce her to come.
Who acts: Frivola, Queen, nothing · What happens: be, awaken, declare, have, induce, come · To what, where: bad humour, pain, little finger, Queen · 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 (Frivola, Queen, nothing), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 humour | cc |
| 2 | Frivola | Frivola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 humour | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 humour | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 humour | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 humour | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 bad | advmod |
| 7 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 humour | amod |
| 8 | humour | humour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 14 awakened | mark |
| 10 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 awakened | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 awakened | aux:pass |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 awakened | advmod |
| 13 | unceremoniously | unceremoniously | ADV | _ | 14 awakened | advmod |
| 14 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 humour | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 declared | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 declared | cc |
| 17 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 awakened | parataxis |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 had | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 declared | ccomp |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pain | det |
| 22 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 finger | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 finger | nmod:poss |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 finger | amod |
| 26 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pain | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 induce | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 induce | cc |
| 29 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 nothing | det |
| 30 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 32 induce | nsubj |
| 31 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 induce | aux |
| 32 | induce | induce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 declared | conj |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 induce | obj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 come | mark |
| 35 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 induce | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 humour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Frivola | a bad humour | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | awaken | gerund · perfect · passive | a bad humour not said here | unceremoniously property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V» | ||||
| 3 | declare speech: other | past | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | have | past | Queen | a pain | Queen's little finger | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Patient | |||
| 5 | induce | should | nothing | Queen | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 6 | come | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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