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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

ccadvmodnsubjpunctccdetnsubjconjdetobjcasenmod:possamodoblpunctnsubjconjxcompmarkxcompadvmodcasenmod:posscaseoblpunctcaseoblnmod:possnsubj:passauxaux:passparataxisccnsubjauxconjnmod:possamodobjpunctrootAndCCONJwhenADVeveningNOUNcameVERB,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETnurseNOUNfetchedVERBtheDETPrincessPROPNintoADPherPRONlittleADJhouseNOUN,PUNCThePRONfeltVERBobligedVERBtoPARTgoVERBbackADVtoADPFrivolaPROPN’sPARTpalaceNOUN,PUNCTforADPfearNOUNhisPRONabsenceNOUNshouldAUXbeAUXnoticedVERBandCCONJsomeonePRONshouldAUXdiscoverVERBhisPRONnewADJtreasureNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_4 camecc
2whenwhenADVPronType=Int4 cameadvmod
3eveningeveningNOUNNumber=Sing4 camensubj
4camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5,,PUNCT_9 fetchedpunct
6andandCCONJ_9 fetchedcc
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 nursedet
8nursenurseNOUNNumber=Sing9 fetchednsubj
9fetchedfetchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 cameconj
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 Princessdet
11PrincessPrincessPROPNNumber=Sing9 fetchedobj
12intointoADP_15 housecase
13herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 housenmod:poss
14littlelittleADJDegree=Pos15 houseamod
15househouseNOUNNumber=Sing9 fetchedobl
16,,PUNCT_18 feltpunct
17hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 feltnsubj
18feltfeelVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 cameconj
19obligedobligeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass18 feltxcomp
20totoPART_21 gomark
21gogoVERBVerbForm=Inf19 obligedxcomp
22backbackADV_21 goadvmod
23totoADP_26 palacecase
24FrivolaFrivolaPROPNNumber=Sing26 palacenmod:poss
25’s'sPART_24 Frivolacase
26palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing21 goobl
27,,PUNCT_34 noticedpunct
28forforADP_29 fearcase
29fearfearNOUNNumber=Sing34 noticedobl
30hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs31 absencenmod:poss
31absenceabsenceNOUNNumber=Sing34 noticednsubj:pass
32shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin34 noticedaux
33bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf34 noticedaux:pass
34noticednoticeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass18 feltparataxis
35andandCCONJ_38 discovercc
36someonesomeonePRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind38 discovernsubj
37shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin38 discoveraux
38discoverdiscoverVERBVerbForm=Inf34 noticedconj
39hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs41 treasurenmod:poss
40newnewADJDegree=Pos41 treasureamod
41treasuretreasureNOUNNumber=Sing38 discoverobj
42..PUNCT_4 camepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comepasteveningvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2fetchpastthe nursethe PrincessPrincess's little housevn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme
3feelpastnursevn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4obligeparticiplenurse not said herevn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result
5go backto-infinitivenurse not said hereto Frivola's palace resultvn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result
6noticeshould · passivenurse's absencefor fearvn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
7discovershouldsomeonenurse's new treasurevn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Topic
8absentnursenom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent
9treasurenursenom 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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