The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 150
Scattering the guards right and left, he cleared the wall at a bound, and seizing the sleeping Princess, he threw her on to his back, where he kept her by holding her robe in his teeth.
Who acts: Orion · What happens: scatter, leave, clear, seize, sleep, throw on · To what, where: guards, wall, bound, sleeping Princess, Princess, back
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 (Orion), 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 | Scattering | scatter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 cleared | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 guards | det |
| 3 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Scattering | obj |
| 4 | right | right | ADV | _ | 6 left | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 left | cc |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Scattering | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Scattering | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cleared | nsubj |
| 9 | cleared | clear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wall | det |
| 11 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cleared | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 bound | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bound | det |
| 14 | bound | bound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cleared | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 threw | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 threw | cc |
| 17 | seizing | seize | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 threw | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Princess | det |
| 19 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 Princess | amod |
| 20 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seizing | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seizing | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 threw | nsubj |
| 23 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cleared | parataxis |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 threw | obj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 threw | compound:prt |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 back | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 back | nmod:poss |
| 28 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 threw | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 kept | punct |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 kept | advmod |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 kept | nsubj |
| 32 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 threw | conj |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 kept | obj |
| 34 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 35 holding | mark |
| 35 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 kept | advcl |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 robe | nmod:poss |
| 37 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 holding | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 teeth | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 40 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 holding | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cleared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scatter | gerund | Orion not said here | the guards | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent guard=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | Orion not said here | right property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | clear | past | Orion | the wall | a bound | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent wall=Source | |||
| 4 | seize | gerund | Orion not said here | the sleeping Princess | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sleep | gerund | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | throw on | past | Orion | Princess | Orion's back | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme to back=Destination | |||
| 7 | keep | past | Orion | Princess | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 8 | hold | gerund | Orion not said here | Princess's robe | Orion's teeth | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent robe=Theme in tooth=Location |
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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