The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 159

Meanwhile matters were advancing rapidly in the court of King Cloverleaf, for the Queen quite made up her mind that such a beauty as Potentilla must be got out of the way as quickly as possible.

Who acts: Meanwhile matters, Queen · What happens: advance, make up, get out, mind · To what, where: court, mind, beauty, way

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 (Meanwhile matters, Queen), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 matters	amod
2	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 advancing	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 advancing	aux
4	advancing	advance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	4 advancing	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 court	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 court	det
8	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 advancing	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Cloverleaf	case
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Cloverleaf	compound
11	Cloverleaf	cloverleaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 court	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 made	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Queen	det
15	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 made	nsubj
16	quite	quite	ADV	_	17 made	advmod
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 advancing	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 made	compound:prt
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mind	nmod:poss
20	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	obj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 got	mark
22	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	24 beauty	det:predet
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 beauty	det
24	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 got	nsubj
25	as	as	ADP	_	26 Potentilla	case
26	Potentilla	Potentilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 beauty	nmod
27	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 got	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 got	aux:pass
29	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 made	advcl
30	out	out	ADP	_	33 way	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 way	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 way	det
33	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 got	obl
34	as	as	ADV	_	35 quickly	advmod
35	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	29 got	advmod
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 possible	mark
37	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 quickly	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 advancing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	advance	past · progressive	Meanwhile matters		the court of King Cloverleaf	rapidly property	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	make up	past	the Queen	Queen's mind			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
3	get out	must · passive		such beauty as Potentilla	the way	quickly property	tree rules
4	mind		Queen				nom mind «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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