The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 168

‘Ah! beloved Narcissus, I come to thee!’ and was just raising it to her lips when the window of the great hall burst open, and the Fairy Melinette floated in upon a glowing sunset cloud, followed by the Prince himself:

Who acts: I, window, Fairy Melinette · What happens: come, raise, burst, float, glow, follow · To what, where: thee, jest, lips, glowing sunset cloud

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 (I, window, Fairy Melinette), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 Narcissus	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 Narcissus	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Narcissus	amod
5	Narcissus	Narcissus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 come	nsubj
8	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Narcissus	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 thee	case
10	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	8 come	obl
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 raising	cc
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 raising	aux
15	just	just	ADV	_	16 raising	advmod
16	raising	raise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 come	obl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 raising	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 lips	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 lips	nmod:poss
20	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 raising	obl
21	when	when	SCONJ	_	28 burst	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 window	det
23	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 burst	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 hall	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hall	det
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hall	amod
27	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 window	nmod
28	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 raising	advcl
29	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 burst	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 floated	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 floated	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Melinette	det
33	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Melinette	compound
34	Melinette	Melinette	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 floated	nsubj
35	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 come	parataxis
36	in	in	ADP	_	41 cloud	case
37	upon	upon	ADP	_	41 cloud	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 cloud	det
39	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 cloud	amod
40	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 cloud	compound
41	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 floated	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 followed	punct
43	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 cloud	acl
44	by	by	ADP	_	46 Prince	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Prince	det
46	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 followed	obl:agent
47	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	46 Prince	nmod
48	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 Narcissus	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present	I		thee		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to thou=Initial_Location
2	raise	past · progressive		jest	Princess's lips		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to lip=Destination
3	burst	past	the window of the great hall			open property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	float	past	the Fairy Melinette		a glowing sunset cloud		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cloud=Trajectory
5	glow	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	follow	participle		a glowing sunset cloud not said here			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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