The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 29
And when evening came, and the nurse fetched the Princess into her little house, he felt obliged to go back to Frivola’s palace, for fear his absence should be noticed and someone should discover his new treasure.
Who acts: evening, nurse, someone · What happens: come, fetch, feel, oblige, go back, notice · To what, where: Princess, little house, absence, new treasure
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 (evening, nurse, someone), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 came | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fetched | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fetched | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 nurse | det |
| 8 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fetched | nsubj |
| 9 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Princess | det |
| 11 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 fetched | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 house | nmod:poss |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 house | amod |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fetched | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 felt | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 felt | nsubj |
| 18 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 19 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 felt | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 go | mark |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 obliged | xcomp |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 go | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 palace | case |
| 24 | Frivola | Frivola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 palace | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 Frivola | case |
| 26 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 go | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 noticed | punct |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 fear | case |
| 29 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 noticed | obl |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 absence | nmod:poss |
| 31 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 noticed | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 noticed | aux |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 noticed | aux:pass |
| 34 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 felt | parataxis |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 discover | cc |
| 36 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 38 discover | nsubj |
| 37 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 discover | aux |
| 38 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 noticed | conj |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 40 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 treasure | amod |
| 41 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 discover | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fetch | past | the nurse | the Princess | Princess's little house | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | |||
| 3 | feel | past | nurse | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | oblige | participle | nurse not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result | |||||
| 5 | go back | to-infinitive | nurse not said here | to Frivola's palace result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result | ||||
| 6 | notice | should · passive | nurse's absence | for fear | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | discover | should | someone | nurse's new treasure | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Topic | ||||
| 8 | absent | nurse | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | treasure | nurse | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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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