The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 47
Assuming the Prince’s voice, she whispered in Potentilla’s ear:
Who acts: Fairy · What happens: assume, whisper · To what, where: voice, ear
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 (Fairy), 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 | Assuming | assume | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 whispered | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 voice | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Prince | case |
| 5 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Assuming | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Assuming | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 whispered | nsubj |
| 8 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 ear | case |
| 10 | Potentilla | Potentilla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 ear | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Potentilla | case |
| 12 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 whispered | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assume | gerund | Fairy not said here | the Prince's voice | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | Fairy | Potentilla's ear | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location |
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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