The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 43
To which he replied with a self-satisfied chuckle: ‘You want a narcissus, madam?
Who acts: Narcissus, You · What happens: reply, want · To what, where: narcissus
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 (Narcissus, You), 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 | ADP | _ | 2 which | case |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 replied | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 chuckle | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 chuckle | det |
| 7 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 satisfied | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 self | punct |
| 9 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 chuckle | amod |
| 10 | chuckle | chuckle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 want | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 want | punct |
| 13 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 want | nsubj |
| 14 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 replied | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 narcissus | det |
| 16 | narcissus | narcissus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 want | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 madam | punct |
| 18 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 narcissus | conj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Narcissus | with a satisfied chuckle | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent to which=Theme with chuckle=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | want | present | You | a narcissus and madam | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot narcissus=Theme |
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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