The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 165
His hair stood on end, and he wore a huge bag-purse and a cravat tied in a bow, his mantle was made of a shower of silver coins with a lining of rose colour, and his delight in his own appearance knew no bounds.
Who acts: hair, delight, Grumedan · What happens: stand, wear, tie, make, know, delight · To what, where: end, huge bag purse, cravat, bow, mantle, bounds
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 (hair, delight, Grumedan), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hair | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 end | case |
| 5 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wore | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wore | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wore | nsubj |
| 9 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 purse | det |
| 11 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 purse | amod |
| 12 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 purse | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 bag | punct |
| 14 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wore | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cravat | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cravat | det |
| 17 | cravat | cravat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 purse | conj |
| 18 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 cravat | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 bow | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bow | det |
| 21 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tied | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 made | punct |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 mantle | nmod:poss |
| 24 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 made | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 made | aux:pass |
| 26 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 wore | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 shower | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 shower | det |
| 29 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 made | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 coins | case |
| 31 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 coins | compound |
| 32 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 shower | nmod |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 lining | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 lining | det |
| 35 | lining | lining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 coins | nmod |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 colour | case |
| 37 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 colour | compound |
| 38 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 lining | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 knew | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 knew | cc |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 delight | nmod:poss |
| 42 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 knew | nsubj |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 appearance | case |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 45 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 appearance | amod |
| 46 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 delight | nmod |
| 47 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 48 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 49 bounds | det |
| 49 | bounds | bound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 knew | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Grumedan's hair | on end | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on end=Location | ||||
| 2 | wear | past | hair | a huge bag purse and a cravat | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent purse=Source | ||||
| 3 | tie | participle | a cravat not said here | a bow | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | past · passive | Grumedan's mantle | of a shower of silver coins with a lining of rose colour | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 5 | know | past | Grumedan's delight in Grumedan's own appearance | no bounds | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bound=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | delight | Grumedan | Grumedan's own appearance | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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