The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 39

To begin with, he was very big and clumsy, then he had but one eye, and his teeth were long, and he stammered badly; nevertheless, he had an excellent opinion of himself, and mistook the Princess’s cry of terror for an exclamation of delighted surprise.

Who acts: Prince, teeth, terror · What happens: begin, be, have, stammer, mistake, opine · To what, where: one eye, excellent opinion, cry, Prince, delighted surprise

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 (Prince, teeth, 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	To	to	PART	_	2 begin	mark
2	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 had	advcl
3	with	with	ADP	_	2 begin	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 big	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 big	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 big	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 big	advmod
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 begin	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 clumsy	cc
10	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 big	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 had	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 big	conj
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 eye	cc
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 eye	nummod
17	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 long	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 long	cc
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 teeth	nmod:poss
21	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 long	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 long	cop
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 had	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stammered	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 stammered	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 stammered	nsubj
27	stammered	stammer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 long	conj
28	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 stammered	advmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 nevertheless	punct
30	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	2 begin	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 begin	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 had	nsubj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 opinion	det
35	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 opinion	amod
36	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 himself	case
38	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 opinion	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 mistook	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 mistook	cc
41	mistook	mistake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 had	conj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Princess	det
43	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 cry	nmod:poss
44	’s	's	PART	_	43 Princess	case
45	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 mistook	obj
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 terror	case
47	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 cry	nmod
48	for	for	ADP	_	50 exclamation	case
49	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 exclamation	det
50	exclamation	exclamation	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 mistook	obl
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 surprise	case
52	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 surprise	amod
53	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 exclamation	nmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	to-infinitive	Prince not said here			nevertheless property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	past	Prince			big property	tree rules
3	be		Prince not said here				tree rules
4	have	past	Prince	one eye	then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
5	is	past	Prince's teeth			long property	tree rules
6	stammer speech: other	past	Prince			badly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	have	past	Prince	a excellent opinion of Prince			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Patient
8	mistake	past	Prince not said here	the Princess's cry of terror		for a exclamation of delighted surprise	tree rules
9	opine			Prince			nom opinion «cognition transitive»: of=patient
10	cry		terror				nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent
11	exclaim			delighted surprise			nom exclamation «communication 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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