The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 172
Then turning to the King and Queen, she begged them to proceed with the wedding, since she had provided a much more suitable bridegroom.
Who acts: Melinette · What happens: turn, beg, proceed, provide · To what, where: King, suitable bridegroom
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 turning | advmod |
| 2 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 begged | advcl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 King | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 turning | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Queen | cc |
| 7 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 King | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 turning | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 begged | nsubj |
| 10 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 begged | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 proceed | mark |
| 13 | proceed | proceed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 begged | xcomp |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 wedding | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wedding | det |
| 16 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 proceed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 provided | punct |
| 18 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 21 provided | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 provided | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 provided | aux |
| 21 | provided | provide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 proceed | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 bridegroom | det |
| 23 | much | much | ADV | _ | 24 more | advmod |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 suitable | advmod |
| 25 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bridegroom | amod |
| 26 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 provided | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | Melinette not said here | then | to the King and Queen result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to king=Result | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | Melinette | King | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | proceed not said to happen | to-infinitive | Melinette not said here | with the wedding | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | provide | past · perfect | Melinette | a suitable bridegroom | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition bridegroom=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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