The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 14

He was not much older than the Princess, and was as handsome a Prince as you would see in a day’s journey, and really, for his age, not so very scatter-brained.

Who acts: thing, Prince, you, day · What happens: not be, be, see, not brain, journey · To what, where: journey

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 (thing, Prince, you, day), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 older	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 older	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 older	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 older	advmod
5	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 Princess	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Princess	det
8	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 older	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 handsome	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 handsome	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 handsome	cop
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 handsome	case
13	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 older	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 Prince	det
15	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 handsome	nsubj
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 see	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 see	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 see	aux
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 handsome	advcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	24 journey	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 day	det
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 journey	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 day	case
24	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 age	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 age	cc
27	really	really	ADV	_	31 age	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 age	punct
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 age	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 age	nmod:poss
31	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 brained	punct
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 brained	advmod
34	so	so	ADV	_	38 brained	advmod
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 scatter	advmod
36	scatter	scatter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 brained	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 scatter	punct
38	brained	brain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 age	parataxis
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 older	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	thing		than the Princess; old property	tree rules
2	is	past	a Prince		handsome property	tree rules
3	see	would	you	a day's journey		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	not brain	participle				vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	journey		a day			nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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