The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 31
As to the Prince, he was becoming day by day more attached to Potentilla, and his one thought was to attend her, always invisible, and help her in everything she did, and provide her with everything that could possibly amuse or please her.
Who acts: Prince, one thought, Potentilla · What happens: become, be, help, do, provide, amuse · To what, where: Potentilla, everything
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, one thought, Potentilla), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 Prince | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 becoming | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Prince | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 becoming | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 becoming | aux |
| 8 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 becoming | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 becoming | obl |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 attached | advmod |
| 13 | attached | attached | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 becoming | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Potentilla | case |
| 15 | Potentilla | Potentilla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 attached | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 attend | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 attend | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 thought | nmod:poss |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 thought | nummod |
| 20 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 attend | nsubj:outer |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 attend | cop |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 attend | mark |
| 23 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 becoming | conj |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 attend | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 invisible | punct |
| 26 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 27 invisible | advmod |
| 27 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 becoming | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 help | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 help | cc |
| 30 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 27 invisible | parataxis |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 help | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 everything | case |
| 33 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 30 help | obl |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 did | nsubj |
| 35 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 everything | acl:relcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 provide | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 provide | cc |
| 38 | provide | provide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 30 help | conj |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 provide | obj |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 everything | case |
| 41 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 38 provide | obl |
| 42 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 amuse | nsubj |
| 43 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 amuse | aux |
| 44 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 45 amuse | advmod |
| 45 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 everything | acl:relcl |
| 46 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 47 please | cc |
| 47 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 amuse | conj |
| 48 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 please | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 becoming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past · progressive | Prince | day | as the Prince; attached property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | Prince's one thought | attend property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | help | infinitive | Potentilla | everything | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | do | past | Potentilla | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | provide | infinitive | Potentilla | with everything | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Recipient with everything=Theme | ||||
| 6 | amuse | could | possibly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | please | infinitive | Potentilla | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | think | Prince | nom thought «cognition 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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