The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 40
After pausing a moment to give her time to admire him, the Enchanter made her the most complimentary speech he could invent, which, however, did not please her at all, though he was extremely delighted with it himself.
Who acts: Enchanter · What happens: pause, give, admire, make, invent, not please · To what, where: Prince, complimentary speech, Princess, all
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 (Enchanter), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 pausing | mark |
| 2 | pausing | pause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 made | advcl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pausing | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 give | mark |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 pausing | advcl |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 time | nmod:poss |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 admire | mark |
| 10 | admire | admire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 time | acl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 admire | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 pausing | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Enchanter | det |
| 14 | Enchanter | Enchanter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 made | nsubj |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 made | obj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 speech | det |
| 18 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 complimentary | advmod |
| 19 | complimentary | complimentary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 speech | amod |
| 20 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 invent | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 invent | aux |
| 23 | invent | invent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 speech | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 please | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 please | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 which | punct |
| 27 | however | however | ADV | _ | 31 please | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 however | punct |
| 29 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 please | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 please | advmod |
| 31 | please | please | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 speech | parataxis |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 please | obj |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 all | case |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 please | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 delighted | punct |
| 36 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 40 delighted | mark |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 delighted | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 delighted | cop |
| 39 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 40 delighted | advmod |
| 40 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 please | conj |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 it | case |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 delighted | obl |
| 43 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 40 delighted | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | gerund | the Enchanter not said here | moment | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | the Enchanter not said here | time | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | admire | to-infinitive | the Enchanter not said here | Prince | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | make | past | the Enchanter | the complimentary speech | Princess | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary speech=Product | |||
| 5 | invent | could | enchanter | the complimentary speech not said here | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Result | ||||
| 6 | not please | past · do-support | the complimentary speech | all | however property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus which=Experiencer she=Result | |||
| 7 | is | past | enchanter | with speech; Prince obl; delighted, extremely property | tree rules |
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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