The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 28
Prince Narcissus watched her every movement, and hovered near her in a dream of delight, not daring as yet to appear to her, so humble had he suddenly become in her presence.
Who acts: Prince, humble · What happens: watch, hover, not dare, appear, have, become · To what, where: Princess, dream, presence, delight
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 (Prince, humble), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 watched | nsubj |
| 2 | Narcissus | Narcissus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Prince | flat |
| 3 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 watched | obj |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 movement | det |
| 6 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 watched | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hovered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hovered | cc |
| 9 | hovered | hover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 watched | conj |
| 10 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hovered | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 dream | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 dream | det |
| 14 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hovered | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 delight | case |
| 16 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dream | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 daring | punct |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 daring | advmod |
| 19 | daring | dare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 hovered | advcl |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 yet | advmod |
| 21 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 19 daring | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 appear | mark |
| 23 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 daring | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 appear | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 had | punct |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 humble | advmod |
| 28 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 had | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 watched | conj |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 become | nsubj |
| 31 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 32 become | advmod |
| 32 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 had | ccomp |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 presence | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 presence | nmod:poss |
| 35 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 become | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | Prince | Princess | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme movement=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | hover | past | Prince not said here | a dream of delight | near Princess | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near she=Location | |||
| 3 | not dare | gerund | Prince not said here | yet | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | appear | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | Princess | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | past | humble | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | become | present | Prince | in Princess's presence result; suddenly property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in presence=Result | ||||
| 7 | dream | delight | nom dream «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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