The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 46

She would certainly have betrayed that this was not the kind of narcissus she wanted, but for the Fairy Melinette, who had been anxiously watching the interview, and now thought it quite time to interfere.

Who acts: Princess, this, Fairy, interview · What happens: betray, not be, want, watch, think, time · To what, where: kind, narcissus, interview · 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 (Princess, this, Fairy, interview), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 betrayed	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 betrayed	aux
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	5 betrayed	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 betrayed	aux
5	betrayed	betray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 kind	mark
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 kind	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 kind	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 kind	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 kind	det
11	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 betrayed	advcl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 narcissus	case
13	narcissus	narcissus	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kind	nmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wanted	nsubj
15	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 narcissus	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 thought	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 thought	cc
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 Fairy	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Fairy	det
20	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 thought	nsubj
21	Melinette	Melinette	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Fairy	flat
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 watching	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 watching	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 watching	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 watching	aux
26	anxiously	anxiously	ADV	_	27 watching	advmod
27	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 Fairy	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 interview	det
29	interview	interview	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 watching	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 thought	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 thought	cc
32	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 thought	advmod
33	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 betrayed	parataxis
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 time	nsubj
35	quite	quite	ADV	_	36 time	advmod
36	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 thought	ccomp
37	to	to	PART	_	38 interfere	mark
38	interfere	interfere	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 time	acl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 betrayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	betray	would · perfect	Princess			certainly property	tree rules
2	not is a	past	this	the kind		of narcissus	tree rules
3	want	past	Princess	narcissus not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot narcissus=Theme
4	watch	past · perfect · progressive	the Fairy	the interview		anxiously property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interview=Theme
5	think speech: other	past	the Fairy		now		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	time		interview				tree rules
7	interfere	to-infinitive	the Fairy not said here				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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