The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 17
In this they did very well for him, for the Fairy was as kind as she was powerful, and she spared no pains in teaching the little Prince everything it was good for him to know, and even imparted to him some of her own Fairy lore.
Who acts: parents, Fairy, care, Prince · What happens: do, be, spare, teach, know, impart · To what, where: this, pains, everything, some, Prince
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 (parents, Fairy, care, Prince), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 did | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 well | advmod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 did | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kind | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 kind | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Fairy | det |
| 12 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kind | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 kind | cop |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 kind | advmod |
| 15 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 did | conj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 powerful | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 powerful | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 powerful | cop |
| 19 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 kind | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 spared | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 spared | cc |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 spared | nsubj |
| 23 | spared | spare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 kind | conj |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 pains | det |
| 25 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 spared | obj |
| 26 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 27 teaching | mark |
| 27 | teaching | teach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 spared | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 everything | det |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 everything | amod |
| 30 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 everything | compound |
| 31 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 27 teaching | obj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 good | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 good | cop |
| 34 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 everything | acl:relcl |
| 35 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 38 know | mark |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 know | nsubj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 know | mark |
| 38 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 good | advcl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 imparted | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 imparted | cc |
| 41 | even | even | ADV | _ | 42 imparted | advmod |
| 42 | imparted | impart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 kind | conj |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 him | case |
| 44 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 imparted | obl |
| 45 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 42 imparted | obj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 lore | case |
| 47 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 lore | nmod:poss |
| 48 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 lore | amod |
| 49 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 lore | compound |
| 50 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 some | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | parents = parent | this | for Prince; well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is | past | the Fairy | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Fairy | powerful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | spare | past | Fairy | no pains | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent pain=Asset | ||||
| 5 | teach speech: other | gerund | Fairy not said here | everything | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | is | past | care | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | know | to-infinitive | Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | impart | past | the Fairy not said here | some | Prince | tree rules |
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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