The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 5

Balls, masquerades, and picnics followed one another in rapid succession, as fast as she could arrange them, and you may imagine that under these circumstances the kingdom was somewhat neglected.

Who acts: Balls, Queen, you · What happens: follow, arrange, imagine, neglect · To what, where: one, rapid succession, picnics, kingdom, circumstances

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 (Balls, Queen, 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	Balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 followed	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 masquerades	punct
3	masquerades	masquerade	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Balls	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 followed	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 followed	cc
6	picnics	picnic	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 followed	nsubj
7	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 followed	obj
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 one	fixed
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 succession	case
11	rapid	rapid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 succession	amod
12	succession	succession	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 followed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fast	punct
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 fast	advmod
15	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 followed	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 arrange	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 arrange	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 arrange	aux
19	arrange	arrange	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 fast	advcl
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 arrange	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 imagine	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 imagine	cc
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 imagine	nsubj
24	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 imagine	aux
25	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 followed	parataxis
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 neglected	mark
27	under	under	ADP	_	29 circumstances	case
28	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	29 circumstances	det
29	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 neglected	obl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 kingdom	det
31	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 neglected	nsubj:pass
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 neglected	aux:pass
33	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	34 neglected	advmod
34	neglected	neglect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 imagine	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	past	Balls and masquerades	one	rapid succession	fast property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent one=Theme in succession=Trajectory
2	arrange	could	Queen	picnics = picnic			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product
3	imagine	may	you				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	neglect	past · passive		the kingdom	this circumstances	somewhat property	vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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