The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 33

Then Narcissus implored his faithful friend Melinette to send the Princess such dreams of him as should make her recognise him as a friend when he actually appeared before her eyes; and this device was so successful that the Princess quite dreaded the cessation of these amusing dreams, in which a certain Prince Narcissus was such a delightful lover and companion.

Who acts: Narcissus, friend, device, Princess, certain Narcissus · What happens: implore, send, make, recognise, appear, be · To what, where: faithful friend, Princess such dreams, friend, Narcissus, eyes, cessation

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 (Narcissus, friend, device, Princess), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 implored	advmod
2	Narcissus	Narcissus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 implored	nsubj
3	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 friend	nmod:poss
5	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 friend	amod
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 implored	obj
7	Melinette	Melinette	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 friend	appos
8	to	to	PART	_	9 send	mark
9	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 implored	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dreams	det
11	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dreams	compound
12	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 dreams	amod
13	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 send	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 dreams	nmod
16	as	as	ADV	_	18 make	advmod
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 make	aux
18	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 implored	advcl
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 make	obj
20	recognise	recognise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 make	xcomp
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 recognise	obj
22	as	as	ADP	_	24 friend	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 friend	det
24	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 recognise	obl
25	when	when	SCONJ	_	28 appeared	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 appeared	nsubj
27	actually	actually	ADV	_	28 appeared	advmod
28	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 recognise	advcl
29	before	before	ADP	_	31 eyes	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 eyes	nmod:poss
31	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 appeared	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 successful	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 successful	cc
34	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 device	det
35	device	device	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 successful	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 successful	cop
37	so	so	ADV	_	38 successful	advmod
38	successful	successful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 implored	parataxis
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 dreaded	mark
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Princess	det
41	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 dreaded	nsubj
42	quite	quite	ADV	_	43 dreaded	advmod
43	dreaded	dread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 successful	advcl
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 cessation	det
45	cessation	cessation	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 dreaded	obj
46	of	of	ADP	_	49 dreams	case
47	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	49 dreams	det
48	amusing	amusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 dreams	amod
49	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 cessation	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 lover	punct
51	in	in	ADP	_	52 which	case
52	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	61 lover	obl
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 Narcissus	det
54	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 Narcissus	amod
55	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 Narcissus	nmod:desc
56	Narcissus	Narcissus	PROPN	Number=Sing	61 lover	nsubj
57	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 lover	cop
58	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	61 lover	det:predet
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 lover	det
60	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 lover	amod
61	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 cessation	conj
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 companion	cc
63	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 lover	conj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 implored	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	implore	past	Narcissus		Narcissus's faithful friend		then		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient
2	send	to-infinitive	Narcissus not said here	the Princess such dreams of Narcissus					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Theme
3	make	should	Narcissus not said here	friend					tree rules
4	recognise	infinitive	friend not said here	Narcissus				as a friend	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus as friend=Attribute
5	appear	past	Narcissus			friend's eyes		actually property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before eye=Location
6	is	past	this device					successful property	tree rules
7	dread	past	the Princess	the cessation of this amusing dreams and such delightful lover and companion					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cessation=Stimulus
8	is a	past	a certain Narcissus Prince	such delightful lover and companion		the cessation of this amusing dreams and such delightful lover and companion			tree rules
9	dream			Narcissus					nom dream «cognition transitive»: of=patient
10	cease			this amusing dreams					nom cessation «event 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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