The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 160
So she sent for the Enchanter secretly, and after making him promise that he would never turn herself and King Cloverleaf out of their kingdom, and that he would take Potentilla far away, so that never again might she set eyes upon her, she arranged the wedding for the next day but one.
Who acts: Queen, enchanter · What happens: send, make, promise, not turn, take, set · To what, where: enchanter, Queen, kingdom, Potentilla, eyes, wedding · 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 (Queen, enchanter), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 sent | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 Enchanter | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Enchanter | det |
| 6 | Enchanter | Enchanter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 7 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 3 sent | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 promise | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 promise | cc |
| 10 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 11 making | mark |
| 11 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 promise | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 making | obj |
| 13 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | advcl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 turn | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 turn | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 turn | aux |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 turn | advmod |
| 18 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 promise | ccomp |
| 19 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 turn | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Cloverleaf | cc |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Cloverleaf | compound |
| 22 | Cloverleaf | cloverleaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 herself | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 kingdom | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 kingdom | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 26 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 turn | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 take | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 take | cc |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 take | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 take | nsubj |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 take | aux |
| 32 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 promise | parataxis |
| 33 | Potentilla | Potentilla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 take | obj |
| 34 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 away | advmod |
| 35 | away | away | ADV | _ | 32 take | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 set | punct |
| 37 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 43 set | mark |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 so | fixed |
| 39 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 40 again | advmod |
| 40 | again | again | ADV | _ | 43 set | advmod |
| 41 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 set | aux |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 set | nsubj |
| 43 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 take | conj |
| 44 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 set | obj |
| 45 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 46 her | case |
| 46 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 set | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 arranged | punct |
| 48 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 arranged | nsubj |
| 49 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 wedding | det |
| 51 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 arranged | obj |
| 52 | for | for | ADP | _ | 55 day | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 day | det |
| 54 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 day | amod |
| 55 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 arranged | obl |
| 56 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 57 one | cc |
| 57 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 55 day | conj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Queen | for the Enchanter; secretly property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | make | gerund | enchanter | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product | |||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | infinitive | Queen not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not turn | would | enchanter | Queen | cloud's kingdom | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent herself=Theme out kingdom=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | take | would | enchanter | Potentilla | away property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument potentilla=Destination | |||
| 6 | set | might | Queen | eyes | again | upon Potentilla | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme upon she=Destination | ||
| 7 | arrange | past | Queen | the wedding | day | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedding=Product |
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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