The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 173
She also deprived them of their kingdom, for they had really shown themselves unfit to manage it, and bestowed it upon the Prince and Princess, who, though they were unwilling to take it, had no choice but to obey the Fairy.
Who acts: Melinette, King · What happens: deprive, show, manage, bestow, unwill, take · To what, where: King, bridegroom, choice, Fairy
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, King), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 deprived | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 deprived | advmod |
| 3 | deprived | deprive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 deprived | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 kingdom | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 7 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 deprived | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shown | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 shown | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 shown | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 shown | aux |
| 12 | really | really | ADV | _ | 13 shown | advmod |
| 13 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 deprived | conj |
| 14 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 shown | obj |
| 15 | unfit | unfit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 shown | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 manage | mark |
| 17 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 unfit | xcomp |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 manage | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bestowed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bestowed | cc |
| 21 | bestowed | bestow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 deprived | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bestowed | obj |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 Prince | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Prince | det |
| 25 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 bestowed | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Princess | cc |
| 27 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Prince | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 who | punct |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 Prince | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 unwilling | punct |
| 31 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 34 unwilling | mark |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 unwilling | nsubj |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 unwilling | aux |
| 34 | unwilling | unwill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 bestowed | advcl |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 take | mark |
| 36 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 unwilling | xcomp |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 take | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 had | punct |
| 39 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 deprived | parataxis |
| 40 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 41 choice | det |
| 41 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 had | obj |
| 42 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 44 obey | cc |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 obey | mark |
| 44 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 had | conj |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 Fairy | det |
| 46 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 obey | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 deprived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deprive | past | Melinette | King | of King's kingdom | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Source of kingdom=Theme | |||
| 2 | show | past · perfect | King | King | unfit property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient | |||
| 3 | manage | to-infinitive | King not said here | bridegroom | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bestow | past | Melinette not said here | bridegroom | upon the Prince and Princess | tree rules | |||
| 5 | unwill | past · progressive | King | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | take | to-infinitive | King not said here | bridegroom | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 7 | have | past | no choice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Patient | |||||
| 8 | obey | to-infinitive | the Fairy | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=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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