The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 134
So four of the King’s strongest men-at-arms staggered off with it; and after some persuasion the Queen consented to try this novel remedy.
Who acts: four · What happens: stagger off, consent, try · To what, where: arms, novel remedy
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 (four), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 four | advmod |
| 2 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 consented | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 men | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 men | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 King | case |
| 7 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 men | amod |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 four | nmod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 arms | punct |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 arms | case |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 at | punct |
| 12 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 men | nmod |
| 13 | staggered | stagger | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 arms | acl |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 staggered | compound:prt |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 staggered | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 consented | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 consented | cc |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 21 persuasion | case |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 persuasion | det |
| 21 | persuasion | persuasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 consented | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Queen | det |
| 23 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 consented | nsubj |
| 24 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 try | mark |
| 26 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 consented | xcomp |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 remedy | det |
| 28 | novel | novel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 remedy | amod |
| 29 | remedy | remedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 try | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stagger off | participle | arms not said here | with club | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | consent | past | four of the King's strongest men at arms | after some persuasion | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | try | to-infinitive | four of the King's strongest men at arms not said here | this novel remedy | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remedy=Eventuality |
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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