The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 141
She fancies that she loves a certain contemptible puppy called Narcissus; but I have made very short work with him.
Who acts: Potentilla, I · What happens: fancy, love, call, make · To what, where: certain contemptible puppy, short work · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Potentilla, 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 | 2 fancies | nsubj |
| 2 | fancies | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 loves | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 loves | nsubj |
| 5 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 fancies | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 puppy | det |
| 7 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 puppy | amod |
| 8 | contemptible | contemptible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 puppy | amod |
| 9 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loves | obj |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 puppy | acl |
| 11 | Narcissus | Narcissus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 called | xcomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 made | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 made | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 made | aux |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 fancies | parataxis |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 short | advmod |
| 18 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 work | amod |
| 19 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 work | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fancies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fancy | present | Potentilla | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | love | present | Potentilla | a certain contemptible puppy | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer puppy=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | a certain contemptible puppy not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | make | present · perfect | I | short work | with Narcissus | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Product |
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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