The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 155
All this time Prince Narcissus, gloomy and despairing, was kept a prisoner by Melinette in her castle in the air, and in spite of all the splendour by which he was surrounded, and all the pleasures which he might have enjoyed, his one thought was to get back to Potentilla.
Who acts: Melinette, splendour, one thought, Narcissus · What happens: despair, keep, surround, enjoy, be, spite · To what, where: Narcissus, castle, pleasures, spite, splendour
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 (Melinette, splendour, one thought, Narcissus), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 time | det:predet |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Narcissus | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Narcissus | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Narcissus | Narcissus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gloomy | punct |
| 7 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Narcissus | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 despairing | cc |
| 9 | despairing | despair | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 gloomy | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Narcissus | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 kept | aux:pass |
| 12 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 prisoner | det |
| 14 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kept | xcomp |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 Melinette | case |
| 16 | Melinette | Melinette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 kept | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 castle | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 castle | nmod:poss |
| 19 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kept | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 air | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 air | det |
| 22 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 castle | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 get | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 get | cc |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 spite | case |
| 26 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 get | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 splendour | case |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 splendour | det:predet |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 splendour | det |
| 30 | splendour | splendour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 spite | nmod |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 which | case |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 surrounded | obl |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 35 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 splendour | acl:relcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 enjoyed | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 enjoyed | cc |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 pleasures | det:predet |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 pleasures | det |
| 40 | pleasures | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 enjoyed | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 enjoyed | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 enjoyed | nsubj |
| 43 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 enjoyed | aux |
| 44 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 45 enjoyed | aux |
| 45 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 surrounded | conj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 spite | punct |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 thought | nmod:poss |
| 48 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 49 thought | nummod |
| 49 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 get | nsubj:outer |
| 50 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 get | cop |
| 51 | to | to | PART | _ | 52 get | mark |
| 52 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 kept | parataxis |
| 53 | back | back | ADV | _ | 52 get | advmod |
| 54 | to | to | ADP | _ | 55 Potentilla | case |
| 55 | Potentilla | Potentilla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 back | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | despair | gerund | Melinette not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | keep | past · passive | Melinette | Narcissus Prince | Princess's castle in the air | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in castle=Location | |||
| 3 | surround | past · passive | all splendour | Narcissus | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | enjoy | might · perfect · passive | all pleasures | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | is | past | Narcissus's one thought | spite of all splendour | get property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | spite | all splendour | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | think | Narcissus | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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