The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 45
Whereupon he waved his wand, and the Princess found herself surrounded and half buried in the fragrant flowers.
Who acts: Narcissus, Princess · What happens: wave, find, surround, bury · To what, where: wand, Princess, fragrant flowers · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Princess), 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 | Whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 waved | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 waved | nsubj |
| 3 | waved | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wand | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waved | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 found | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Princess | det |
| 9 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | nsubj |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waved | conj |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 found | obj |
| 12 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 found | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 buried | cc |
| 14 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 15 buried | advmod |
| 15 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 surrounded | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 flowers | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 flowers | det |
| 18 | fragrant | fragrant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 flowers | amod |
| 19 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 buried | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | past | Narcissus | Narcissus's wand | whereupon property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wand=Patient | |||
| 2 | find | past | the Princess | Princess | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent herself=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | surround | participle | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | bury | participle | the fragrant flowers | half property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in flower=Destination |
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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