The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 135
She had hardly smelt it for an instant when she declared herself to be perfectly restored; but whether that was due to the scent of the wood or to the fact that as soon as she touched it out fell a perfect shower of magnificent jewels, I leave you to decide.
Who acts: Queen, that, fact, I · What happens: smelt, declare, restore, be, touch out, fall · To what, where: remedy, Queen, perfect shower, you
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 (Queen, that, fact, I), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 smelt | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 smelt | aux |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 smelt | advmod |
| 4 | smelt | smelt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 smelt | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 instant | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 instant | det |
| 8 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 smelt | obl |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 declared | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 declared | nsubj |
| 11 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 smelt | advcl |
| 12 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 declared | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 restored | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 restored | aux:pass |
| 15 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 16 restored | advmod |
| 16 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 declared | advcl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 50 leave | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 50 leave | cc |
| 19 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 25 scent | mark |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 scent | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 scent | cop |
| 22 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 25 scent | case |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 due | fixed |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 scent | det |
| 25 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 leave | advcl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 wood | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wood | det |
| 28 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 scent | nmod |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 fact | cc |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 fact | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 fact | det |
| 32 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wood | conj |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 fell | mark |
| 34 | as | as | ADV | _ | 35 soon | advmod |
| 35 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 41 fell | advmod |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 38 touched | mark |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 touched | nsubj |
| 38 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 soon | advcl |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 touched | obj |
| 40 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 touched | compound:prt |
| 41 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 fact | acl |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 shower | det |
| 43 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 shower | amod |
| 44 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 fell | obj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 jewels | case |
| 46 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 jewels | amod |
| 47 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 shower | nmod |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 scent | punct |
| 49 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 50 leave | nsubj |
| 50 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 smelt | parataxis |
| 51 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 50 leave | obj |
| 52 | to | to | PART | _ | 53 decide | mark |
| 53 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 leave | advcl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 smelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smelt | past | Queen | remedy | for a instant; hardly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | declare speech: other | past | Queen | Queen | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | restore | to-infinitive · passive | Queen not said here | perfectly property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)» | ||||
| 4 | is | past | that | due the scent; of the wood or the fact | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | touch out | past | Queen | remedy | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | ||||
| 6 | fall | past | the fact not said here | a perfect shower of magnificent jewels | soon property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient shower=Result | |||
| 7 | leave | present | I | you | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 8 | decide | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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