The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 162

All the comfort she could get out of Frivola was, that if she preferred a cup of poison to a rich husband she would certainly provide her with one.

Who acts: Potentilla, comfort · What happens: get out, prefer, be · To what, where: Frivola, cup

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 (Potentilla, comfort), 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 comfort	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 comfort	det
3	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 provide	nsubj:outer
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 get	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 comfort	acl:relcl
7	out	out	ADP	_	9 Frivola	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Frivola	case
9	Frivola	Frivola	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 provide	cop
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 provide	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 provide	mark
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 preferred	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 preferred	nsubj
15	preferred	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 provide	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cup	det
17	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 preferred	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 poison	case
19	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cup	nmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 husband	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 husband	det
22	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 husband	amod
23	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 preferred	obl
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 provide	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 provide	aux
26	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	27 provide	advmod
27	provide	provide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 provide	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 one	case
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 provide	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 provide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get out	could	Potentilla	Frivola		tree rules
2	prefer a condition, not said to happen	past	Potentilla	a cup of poison	to a rich husband	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cup=Stimulus
3	is	would · past	all comfort		with one; certainly, provide property	tree rules

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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