The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 156

The Fairy, however, left him there, promising to do her very best for him, and commanding all her swallows and butterflies to wait upon him and do his bidding.

Who acts: Fairy, Narcissus · What happens: leave, promise, do, command, wait, bid · To what, where: Narcissus, Fairy, swallows, bidding · 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 (Fairy, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Fairy	det
2	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Fairy	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 left	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 left	obj
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 left	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 promising	punct
10	promising	promise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 left	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 do	mark
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 promising	xcomp
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 do	obj
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 best	advmod
15	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 do	obl
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 best	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 commanding	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 commanding	cc
20	commanding	command	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 left	advcl
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 swallows	det:predet
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 swallows	nmod:poss
23	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 commanding	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 butterflies	cc
25	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 swallows	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 wait	mark
27	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 commanding	advcl
28	upon	upon	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wait	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 do	cc
31	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 wait	conj
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 bidding	nmod:poss
33	bidding	bidding	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 do	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	past	the Fairy	Narcissus	there	however property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	promise speech: promise	gerund	the Fairy not said here				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Fairy not said here	Fairy		best obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
4	command	gerund	the Fairy not said here	Fairy's swallows and butterflies			vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent swallow=Eventuality
5	wait	to-infinitive	the Fairy not said here			upon Narcissus	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
6	do	infinitive	the Fairy not said here	Narcissus's bidding			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality
7	bid		Narcissus				nom bidding «communication 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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