The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 4
Her name was Frivola, and her one occupation in life was the pursuit of amusement.
Who acts: name, one occupation, Queen · What happens: be, name, occupy · To what, where: Frivola, pursuit, life
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 (name, one occupation, Queen), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 name | nmod:poss |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Frivola | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Frivola | cop |
| 4 | Frivola | Frivola | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pursuit | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pursuit | cc |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 occupation | nmod:poss |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 occupation | nummod |
| 9 | occupation | occupation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pursuit | nsubj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 life | case |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 occupation | nmod |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 pursuit | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pursuit | det |
| 14 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Frivola | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 amusement | case |
| 16 | amusement | amusement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pursuit | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Frivola | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Queen's name | Frivola | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Queen's one occupation in life | the pursuit | of amusement | tree rules | |||
| 3 | name | Queen | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | occupy | Queen | life | nom occupation «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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