The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 140
In spite of all this, the charms of your daughter Potentilla have so fascinated me that I cannot live without her.
Who acts: I · What happens: fascinate, not live · To what, where: charms, spite
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 (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 spite | case |
| 2 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fascinated | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 spite | nmod |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 all | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 spite | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 charms | det |
| 8 | charms | charm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fascinated | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 daughter | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 11 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 charms | nmod |
| 12 | Potentilla | Potentilla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 daughter | appos |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 fascinated | aux |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 fascinated | advmod |
| 15 | fascinated | fascinate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 fascinated | obj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 live | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 live | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 live | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 live | advmod |
| 21 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 fascinated | advcl |
| 22 | without | without | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 live | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 fascinated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fascinate | present · perfect · passive | the charms of your daughter | spite of all | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer i=Result | ||||
| 2 | not live | can | I | without Potentilla | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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