The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 25
So he made himself invisible, and passed the guard without their so much as suspecting that anyone was near.
Who acts: Narcissus, anyone · What happens: make, pass, suspect, be · To what, where: Narcissus, guard
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 (Narcissus, anyone), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 made | obj |
| 5 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 made | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 passed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 passed | cc |
| 8 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 guard | det |
| 10 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 passed | obj |
| 11 | without | without | ADP | _ | 14 much | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 much | nmod:poss |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 much | advmod |
| 14 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 passed | obl |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 suspecting | mark |
| 16 | suspecting | suspect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 much | advcl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 near | mark |
| 18 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 near | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 near | cop |
| 20 | near | near | ADV | _ | 16 suspecting | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Narcissus | Narcissus | invisible property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Product | |||
| 2 | pass | past | the guard | without guards's much | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme guard=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | suspect | gerund | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | anyone | near property | 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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