The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 35

Now, indeed, they were perfectly happy, and they passed the whole long summer day in Potentilla’s favourite place by the brook, and when at last Prince Narcissus had to leave her it seemed to them both that the hours had gone by with the most amazing swiftness.

Who acts: talks, last Narcissus, it, hours · What happens: be, pass, have, leave, seem, go · To what, where: Princess, talks

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 (talks, last Narcissus, it, hours), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 happy	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	8 happy	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 happy	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 happy	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 happy	cop
7	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	8 happy	advmod
8	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 passed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 passed	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 passed	nsubj
12	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 happy	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 day	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 day	amod
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 day	amod
16	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 day	compound
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 passed	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	22 place	case
19	Potentilla	Potentilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 place	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 Potentilla	case
21	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 place	amod
22	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 day	nmod
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 brook	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 brook	det
25	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 place	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 had	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 had	cc
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 had	advmod
29	at	at	ADP	_	32 Narcissus	case
30	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Narcissus	amod
31	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Narcissus	nmod:desc
32	Narcissus	Narcissus	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 had	nsubj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 happy	parataxis
34	to	to	PART	_	35 leave	mark
35	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 had	xcomp
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 leave	obj
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 seemed	nsubj
38	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 leave	ccomp
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 them	case
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 seemed	obl
41	both	both	ADV	_	46 gone	advmod
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 gone	mark
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 hours	det
44	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 gone	nsubj
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 gone	aux
46	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 seemed	xcomp
47	by	by	ADP	_	52 swiftness	case
48	with	with	ADP	_	52 swiftness	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 swiftness	det
50	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	51 amazing	advmod
51	amazing	amazing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 swiftness	amod
52	swiftness	swiftness	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 gone	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 happy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	talks = talk			now	happy, indeed, perfectly property	tree rules
2	pass	past	talks = talk			day		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	last Narcissus Prince					tree rules
4	leave	to-infinitive	last Narcissus Prince not said here	Princess				tree rules
5	seem	past	it		talks = talk			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	go	past · perfect	the hours				by the amazing swiftness; both property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by swiftness=Location

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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