The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 36
The Princess stayed where she was, dreaming of her delightful Prince, and nothing could have been further from her thoughts than any trouble or misfortune, when suddenly, in a cloud of dust and shavings, by came the enchanter Grumedan, and unluckily he chanced to catch sight of Potentilla.
Who acts: Princess, Prince · What happens: stay, dream, have, be, come, chance · To what, where: thoughts, enchanter, sight, dust, Potentilla
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stayed | nsubj |
| 3 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 dreaming | advmod |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dreaming | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dreaming | aux |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dreaming | punct |
| 8 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stayed | advcl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Prince | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 Prince | nmod:poss |
| 11 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Prince | amod |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 dreaming | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 could | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 could | cc |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 could | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 stayed | advcl |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 could | xcomp |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 thoughts | cop |
| 19 | further | further | ADV | _ | 22 thoughts | advmod |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 thoughts | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 22 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 have | obj |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 trouble | case |
| 24 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 trouble | det |
| 25 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 thoughts | nmod |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 misfortune | cc |
| 27 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 trouble | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 suddenly | punct |
| 29 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 suddenly | advmod |
| 30 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 34 cloud | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 cloud | punct |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 cloud | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 cloud | det |
| 34 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 thoughts | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 dust | case |
| 36 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 cloud | nmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 shavings | cc |
| 38 | shavings | shaving | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 cloud | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 came | punct |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 came | case |
| 41 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 cloud | parataxis |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 enchanter | det |
| 43 | enchanter | enchanter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 came | obj |
| 44 | Grumedan | Grumedan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 enchanter | appos |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 chanced | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 chanced | cc |
| 47 | unluckily | unluckily | ADV | _ | 49 chanced | advmod |
| 48 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 chanced | nsubj |
| 49 | chanced | chance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 came | conj |
| 50 | to | to | PART | _ | 51 catch | mark |
| 51 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 49 chanced | xcomp |
| 52 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 catch | obj |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 Potentilla | case |
| 54 | Potentilla | Potentilla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 sight | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | the Princess | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | dream | past · progressive | Princess | of Princess's delightful Prince | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | infinitive | the Princess not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | participle | Princess's thoughts and a cloud of dust and shavings | than any trouble or misfortune; further property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come | past | the enchanter | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location enchanter=Theme | |||||
| 6 | chance | past | Prince | unluckily property | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 7 | catch | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | sight of Potentilla | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 8 | cloud | dust | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 9 | sight | Potentilla | nom sight «cognition 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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