The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 137
The Enchanter waited until the King and Queen had seated themselves upon their throne, and then, taking his place between them, he began solemnly:
Who acts: Enchanter, King · What happens: wait, seat, take, begin · To what, where: King, place
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 (Enchanter, King), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Enchanter | det |
| 2 | Enchanter | Enchanter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 10 seated | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 seated | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Queen | cc |
| 8 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 King | conj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seated | aux |
| 10 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 waited | advcl |
| 11 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 seated | obj |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 throne | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 throne | nmod:poss |
| 14 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seated | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 taking | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 taking | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 taking | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 taking | punct |
| 19 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 waited | advcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 place | nmod:poss |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 taking | obj |
| 22 | between | between | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 taking | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 began | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 began | nsubj |
| 26 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waited | conj |
| 27 | solemnly | solemnly | ADV | _ | 26 began | advmod |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | the Enchanter | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seat | past · perfect | the King and Queen | King | upon King's throne | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Value | |||
| 3 | take | gerund | the Enchanter not said here | enchanter's place | then | between King | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||
| 4 | begin | past | enchanter | solemnly property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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