The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 32
And the Princess, who had learnt to find diversion in very small things in her quiet life, was in a continual state of delight over the treasures which the Prince constantly laid where she must find them.
Who acts: Princess, Prince · What happens: learn, find, be, lay · To what, where: diversion, small things, continual state, treasures, answers
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 (Princess, Prince), 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 | _ | 24 state | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 state | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 learnt | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 learnt | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 learnt | aux |
| 7 | learnt | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 Princess | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 find | mark |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 learnt | xcomp |
| 10 | diversion | diversion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 things | case |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 small | advmod |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 things | amod |
| 14 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 find | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 life | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 life | nmod:poss |
| 17 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 life | amod |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 things | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Princess | punct |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 state | cop |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 state | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 state | det |
| 23 | continual | continual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 state | amod |
| 24 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 delight | case |
| 26 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 state | nmod |
| 27 | over | over | ADP | _ | 29 treasures | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 treasures | det |
| 29 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 delight | nmod |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 laid | obj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Prince | det |
| 32 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 laid | nsubj |
| 33 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | 34 laid | advmod |
| 34 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 treasures | acl:relcl |
| 35 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 38 find | advmod |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 find | nsubj |
| 37 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 find | aux |
| 38 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 laid | ccomp |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 find | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 state | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past · perfect | the Princess | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | diversion | small things in Princess's quiet life | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diversion=Topic | |||
| 3 | is | past | the Princess | a continual state | of delight over the treasures | tree rules | |||
| 4 | lay | past | the Prince | the treasures | constantly property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | find | must | Princess | answers = answer | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
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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