The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 163
When, then, the fatal day came the unhappy Potentilla was led into the great hall between the King and Queen, the latter wild with envy at the murmurs of admiration which rose on all sides at the loveliness of the Princess.
Who acts: fatal day, admiration · What happens: come, lead, rise, murmur · To what, where: unhappy Potentilla, great hall, sides, admiration
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 (fatal day, admiration), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 then | mark |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 When | punct |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 came | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 then | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 6 | fatal | fatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Potentilla | det |
| 10 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Potentilla | amod |
| 11 | Potentilla | Potentilla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 led | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 led | aux:pass |
| 13 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 came | parataxis |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 hall | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hall | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hall | amod |
| 17 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 led | obl |
| 18 | between | between | ADP | _ | 20 King | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 King | det |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 hall | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Queen | cc |
| 22 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 King | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 wild | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wild | det |
| 25 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 wild | amod |
| 26 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 came | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 envy | case |
| 28 | envy | envy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wild | obl |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 murmurs | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 murmurs | det |
| 31 | murmurs | murmur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 wild | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 admiration | case |
| 33 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 murmurs | nmod |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 rose | nsubj |
| 35 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 admiration | acl:relcl |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 sides | case |
| 37 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 sides | det |
| 38 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 rose | obl |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 loveliness | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 loveliness | det |
| 41 | loveliness | loveliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 rose | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 Princess | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Princess | det |
| 44 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 loveliness | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the fatal day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lead | past · passive | the unhappy Potentilla | the great hall between the King and Queen | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into hall=Destination | ||||
| 3 | rise | past | admiration | all sides | at the loveliness of the Princess | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location | |||
| 4 | murmur | admiration | nom murmur «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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