The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 167
Nevertheless, that was what did happen, for when Queen Frivola in jest held out the fatal cup to the Princess, she took it eagerly, crying:
Who acts: that, Princess · What happens: be, hold out, take, cry · To what, where: Frivola, jest
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 (that, 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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 7 happen | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nevertheless | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 happen | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happen | cop |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 happen | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happen | aux |
| 7 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 held | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 held | mark |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 held | advmod |
| 11 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Frivola | nmod:desc |
| 12 | Frivola | Frivola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 held | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 jest | case |
| 14 | jest | jest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Frivola | nmod |
| 15 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 happen | advcl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 held | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cup | det |
| 18 | fatal | fatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 cup | amod |
| 19 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 held | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Princess | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Princess | det |
| 22 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 cup | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 took | punct |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 took | nsubj |
| 25 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 held | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 took | obj |
| 27 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 25 took | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 crying | punct |
| 29 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 took | advcl |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 happen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · do-support | that | happen, nevertheless property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold out | participle · passive | Frivola Queen in jest | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme cup=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | take | past | Princess | jest | eagerly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | cry speech: express | gerund | Princess not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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