The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 48
‘We are menaced by a great danger, but my only fear is for you, my Princess.
Who acts: great danger, only fear, my · What happens: menace, be, fear · To what, where: We
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 (great danger, only fear, my), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 menaced | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 menaced | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 menaced | aux:pass |
| 4 | menaced | menace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 danger | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 danger | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 danger | amod |
| 8 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 menaced | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Princess | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 Princess | cc |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 fear | nmod:poss |
| 12 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fear | amod |
| 13 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Princess | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 Princess | cop |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 Princess | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 Princess | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Princess | punct |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 Princess | nmod:poss |
| 19 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 menaced | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 menaced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | menace | present · passive | a great danger | We | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | present | my only fear | for my Princess | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fear | my | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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