The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 166
That any Princess could prefer a cup of poison to himself never for an instant occurred to him.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: prefer, not occur · To what, where: cup, Grumedan
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 (Princess), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Princess | det |
| 2 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prefer | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 prefer | aux |
| 5 | prefer | prefer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cup | det |
| 7 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prefer | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 poison | case |
| 9 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cup | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 himself | case |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 prefer | obl |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 occurred | advmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 instant | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 instant | det |
| 15 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 occurred | obl |
| 16 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 prefer | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 occurred | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 prefer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prefer | could | that Princess | a cup of poison | Grumedan | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cup=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | not occur | past | that Princess not said here | Grumedan | for a instant | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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