The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 154

Really her one idea was to let the Princess be seen by as few people as possible; so, throwing a veil over her head, she led her away and locked her up securely.

Who acts: one idea, few people, Princess · What happens: be, see, throw, lead away, lock up · To what, where: veil, head, Potentilla, Princess

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 (one idea, few people, 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	Really	really	ADV	_	7 let	advmod
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 idea	nmod:poss
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 idea	nummod
4	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 let	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 let	cop
6	to	to	PART	_	7 let	mark
7	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Princess	det
9	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 let	obj
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 seen	aux:pass
11	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 let	xcomp
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 people	case
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 people	case
14	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 people	amod
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 seen	obl:agent
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 possible	mark
17	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 seen	advcl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 throwing	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	21 throwing	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 throwing	punct
21	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 let	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 veil	det
23	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 throwing	obj
24	over	over	ADP	_	26 head	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 head	nmod:poss
26	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 throwing	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 led	punct
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 led	nsubj
29	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 throwing	parataxis
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 led	obj
31	away	away	ADV	_	29 led	advmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 locked	cc
33	locked	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 led	conj
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 locked	obj
35	up	up	ADP	_	33 locked	compound:prt
36	securely	securely	ADV	_	33 locked	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Princess's one idea			let property	tree rules
2	see	infinitive · passive	few people				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	throw	gerund		a veil	Princess's head		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent veil=Theme over head=Destination
4	lead away	past	Princess	Potentilla		away property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	lock up	past	Princess not said here	Princess		securely property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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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