The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 21
It was in the course of the Prince’s wanderings, in search of experience of men and things, that he came to the court of Queen Frivola, where he was extremely well received.
Who acts: ring, Prince · What happens: be, come, receive, wander, search, experience · To what, where: course, court, Prince, experience, men
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 (ring, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 course | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 course | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 course | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 course | det |
| 5 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wanderings | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Prince | det |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 wanderings | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Prince | case |
| 10 | wanderings | wandering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 course | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 search | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 search | case |
| 13 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wanderings | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 experience | case |
| 15 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 search | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 men | case |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 experience | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 things | cc |
| 19 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 men | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 came | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 came | nsubj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 search | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 court | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 court | det |
| 26 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Frivola | case |
| 28 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Frivola | nmod:desc |
| 29 | Frivola | Frivola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 court | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 received | punct |
| 31 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 36 received | advmod |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 received | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 received | aux:pass |
| 34 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 35 well | advmod |
| 35 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 received | advmod |
| 36 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 Frivola | acl:relcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 course | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | ring | the course | of the Prince's wanderings | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | past | Prince | the court of Frivola Queen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | receive | past · passive | Prince | well property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wander | the Prince | nom wandering «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | search | experience of men and things | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | experience | men and things | nom experience «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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