The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 169
All the court looked on in dazzled surprise, while Potentilla, catching sight of her lover, dropped the cup and ran joyfully to meet him.
Who acts: court, Potentilla · What happens: look on, dazzle, catch, drop, run, meet · To what, where: sight, cup, court, lover
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 (court, Potentilla), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 court | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 court | det |
| 3 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 looked | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 surprise | case |
| 7 | dazzled | dazzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 surprise | amod |
| 8 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 catching | punct |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 catching | mark |
| 11 | Potentilla | Potentilla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 catching | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 catching | punct |
| 13 | catching | catch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 looked | advcl |
| 14 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 catching | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 lover | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 lover | nmod:poss |
| 17 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sight | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dropped | punct |
| 19 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cup | det |
| 21 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dropped | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ran | cc |
| 23 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 dropped | conj |
| 24 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 23 ran | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 meet | mark |
| 26 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 ran | advcl |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 meet | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look on | past | all court | in dazzled surprise | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in surprise=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dazzle | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | catch | gerund | Potentilla | sight of Potentilla's lover | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 4 | drop | past | the cup | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme | |||||
| 5 | run | past | joyfully property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | meet | to-infinitive | court | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||||
| 7 | sight | Potentilla's lover | nom sight «cognition 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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