The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 38
The Princess sprang to her feet with a cry of terror at this sudden apparition, for really the Enchanter was no beauty.
Who acts: Princess, Enchanter, terror · What happens: spring, be, cry · To what, where: sudden apparition
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, Enchanter, terror), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sprang | nsubj |
| 3 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 feet | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 feet | nmod:poss |
| 6 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sprang | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 cry | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cry | det |
| 9 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sprang | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 terror | case |
| 11 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cry | nmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 apparition | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 apparition | det |
| 14 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 apparition | amod |
| 15 | apparition | apparition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sprang | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 beauty | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 beauty | case |
| 18 | really | really | ADV | _ | 23 beauty | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Enchanter | det |
| 20 | Enchanter | Enchanter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 beauty | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 beauty | cop |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 beauty | det |
| 23 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sprang | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | the Princess | this sudden apparition | to Princess's feet; with a cry of terror | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | the Enchanter | for no beauty | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cry | terror | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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