The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 152
The Enchanter held his club close to the Princess’s charming little nose, whereupon she woke up and shrieked with terror at finding herself in a strange place with the detested Grumedan.
Who acts: Enchanter, Princess · What happens: hold, charm, wake up, shriek, find, detest · To what, where: club, Princess, strange 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, Princess), 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 held | nsubj |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 club | nmod:poss |
| 5 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | obj |
| 6 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 held | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 nose | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Princess | det |
| 9 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 nose | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Princess | case |
| 11 | charming | charm | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 nose | amod |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 nose | amod |
| 13 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 close | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 woke | punct |
| 15 | whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 woke | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 woke | nsubj |
| 17 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 held | parataxis |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 woke | compound:prt |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 shrieked | cc |
| 20 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 woke | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 terror | case |
| 22 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shrieked | obl |
| 23 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 24 finding | mark |
| 24 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 shrieked | advcl |
| 25 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 finding | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 place | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 place | det |
| 28 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 place | amod |
| 29 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 finding | obl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 Grumedan | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Grumedan | det |
| 32 | detested | detest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 Grumedan | amod |
| 33 | Grumedan | Grumedan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 place | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | the Enchanter | Orion's club | close property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Theme | |||
| 2 | charm | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | wake up | past | Princess | whereupon property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | shriek | participle | Princess not said here | with terror | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with terror=Theme | ||||
| 5 | find | gerund | Princess not said here | Princess | a strange place with the detested Grumedan | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic | |||
| 6 | detest | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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