The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 26

Climbing the wall was rather a difficulty, but when he at length found himself inside it he was charmed with the peaceful beauty of the little domain it enclosed, and still more delighted when he perceived a slender, lovely maiden wandering among the flowers.

Who acts: Climbing, Narcissus, wall · What happens: climb, be, find, charm, enclose, perceive · To what, where: wall, difficulty, Narcissus, length, little domain, slender maiden wandering flowers

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 (Climbing, Narcissus, wall), 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	Climbing	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 difficulty	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wall	det
3	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Climbing	obj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 difficulty	cop
5	rather	rather	ADV	_	7 difficulty	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 difficulty	det
7	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 charmed	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 charmed	cc
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 found	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	nsubj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 length	case
13	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 he	nmod
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 charmed	advcl
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 found	obj
16	inside	inside	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 charmed	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 charmed	aux:pass
20	charmed	charm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 difficulty	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 beauty	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 beauty	det
23	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 beauty	amod
24	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 charmed	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 domain	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 domain	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 domain	amod
28	domain	domain	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 beauty	nmod
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 enclosed	nsubj
30	enclosed	enclose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 domain	acl:relcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 delighted	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 delighted	cc
33	still	still	ADV	_	35 delighted	advmod
34	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	35 delighted	advmod
35	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 difficulty	conj
36	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	38 perceived	advmod
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 perceived	nsubj
38	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 delighted	advcl
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 flowers	det
40	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 flowers	amod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 slender	punct
42	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 maiden	amod
43	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 flowers	amod
44	wandering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	47 flowers	amod
45	among	among	ADP	_	47 flowers	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 flowers	det
47	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 perceived	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 difficulty	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	gerund		the wall				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location wall=Theme
2	is a	past	Climbing	a difficulty				tree rules
3	find	past	Narcissus	Narcissus	length			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
4	charm	past · passive		Narcissus			with the peaceful beauty of the little domain	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
5	enclose	past	wall	the little domain not said here				vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme domain=Co-Theme
6	be		Climbing not said here			still		tree rules
7	perceive	past	Narcissus	a slender maiden wandering flowers				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus
8	wonder speech: ask	gerund						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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