The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 161
You may imagine how Potentilla lamented her sad fate, and entreated to be spared.
Who acts: You, Potentilla · What happens: imagine, lament, entreat, spare, fate · To what, where: sad fate
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 (You, Potentilla), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 imagine | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 imagine | aux |
| 3 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 lamented | advmod |
| 5 | Potentilla | Potentilla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lamented | nsubj |
| 6 | lamented | lament | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 imagine | ccomp |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 fate | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fate | amod |
| 9 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lamented | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 entreated | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 entreated | cc |
| 12 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 imagine | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 spared | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 spared | aux:pass |
| 15 | spared | spare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 entreated | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | may | You | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lament | past | Potentilla | Potentilla's sad fate | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | entreat | past | You not said here | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | spare | to-infinitive · passive | You not said here | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset» | |||||
| 5 | fate | Potentilla | nom fate «event 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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