The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 18
But as soon as he was grown up she sent him out to see the world for himself, though all the time she was secretly keeping watch over him, ready to help in any time of need.
Who acts: Fairy, watch · What happens: grow up, send out, see, keep, help · To what, where: Prince, world, watch
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 (Fairy, watch), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 sent | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 soon | advmod |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 sent | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 grown | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 grown | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 grown | aux:pass |
| 7 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 sent | advcl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 grown | compound:prt |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sent | nsubj |
| 10 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sent | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 sent | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sent | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 see | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 himself | case |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 see | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 time | punct |
| 20 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 23 time | mark |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 time | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 time | det |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 see | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 keeping | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 keeping | aux |
| 26 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 27 keeping | advmod |
| 27 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 time | acl:relcl |
| 28 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 keeping | obj |
| 29 | over | over | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 keeping | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 ready | punct |
| 32 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 keeping | advcl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 help | mark |
| 34 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 ready | xcomp |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 time | case |
| 36 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 37 time | det |
| 37 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 help | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 need | case |
| 39 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 time | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past · passive | Prince | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | send out | past | Fairy | Prince | soon property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | Fairy not said here | the world | time | for Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus | ||
| 4 | keep | past · progressive | Fairy | watch | over Prince; secretly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme over he=Location | |||
| 5 | help | to-infinitive | watch not said here | time | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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