The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 50

The Princess was much agitated by this speech, and feared lest the Enchanter should have overheard it; but he had been loudly calling her attention to the flowers, and chuckling over his own smartness in getting them for her; and it was rather a blow to him when she said very coldly that they were not the sort she preferred, and she would be glad if he would send them all away.

Who acts: speech, enchanter, attention, Princess, flowers · What happens: agitate, fear, overhear, call, chuckle, get · To what, where: Princess, Enchanter, attention, flowers, own smartness, blow · 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 (speech, enchanter, attention, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 agitated	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 agitated	aux:pass
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 agitated	advmod
5	agitated	agitate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 speech	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 speech	det
8	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 agitated	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 feared	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 feared	cc
11	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 agitated	conj
12	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	17 overheard	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Enchanter	det
14	Enchanter	Enchanter	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 overheard	nsubj:pass
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 overheard	aux
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 overheard	aux
17	overheard	overhear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 feared	ccomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 overheard	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 calling	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 calling	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 calling	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 calling	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 calling	aux
24	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	25 calling	advmod
25	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 agitated	advcl
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 attention	nmod:poss
27	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 calling	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 flowers	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 flowers	det
30	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 calling	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 chuckling	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 chuckling	cc
33	chuckling	chuckle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 calling	conj
34	over	over	ADP	_	37 smartness	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 smartness	nmod:poss
36	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 smartness	amod
37	smartness	smartness	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 chuckling	obl
38	in	in	SCONJ	_	39 getting	mark
39	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 chuckling	advcl
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 getting	obj
41	for	for	ADP	_	42 her	case
42	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 getting	obl
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 blow	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 blow	cc
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 blow	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 blow	cop
47	rather	rather	ADV	_	49 blow	advmod
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 blow	det
49	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 agitated	obl
50	to	to	ADP	_	51 him	case
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 blow	nmod
52	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	54 said	advmod
53	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 said	nsubj
54	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 blow	acl
55	very	very	ADV	_	56 coldly	advmod
56	coldly	coldly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 said	xcomp
57	that	that	SCONJ	_	62 sort	mark
58	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 sort	nsubj
59	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 sort	cop
60	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	62 sort	advmod
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 sort	det
62	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 coldly	advcl
63	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 preferred	nsubj
64	preferred	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 sort	acl:relcl
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 glad	punct
66	and	and	CCONJ	_	70 glad	cc
67	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	70 glad	nsubj
68	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	70 glad	aux
69	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	70 glad	cop
70	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 agitated	parataxis
71	if	if	SCONJ	_	74 send	mark
72	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	74 send	nsubj
73	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	74 send	aux
74	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	70 glad	advcl
75	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	74 send	obj
76	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	75 them	nmod:unmarked
77	away	away	ADV	_	74 send	advmod
78	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 agitated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	agitate	past · passive	this speech	the Princess				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
2	fear	past	this speech not said here					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	overhear	should · perfect · passive		the Enchanter				tree rules
4	call	past · perfect · progressive	enchanter	Princess's attention	the flowers		loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent attention=Topic to flower=Recipient
5	chuckle	gerund	enchanter not said here			enchanter's own smartness		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	get	gerund	enchanter not said here	flowers = flower			for Princess	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Theme for she=Beneficiary
7	is a	past	attention	a blow	enchanter			tree rules
8	say speech: assert	past	Princess				coldly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
9	not is a	past	flowers = flower	the sort				tree rules
10	prefer	past	Princess	the sort not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus
11	is	would	Princess				glad property	tree rules
12	send away a condition, not said to happen	would	enchanter	flowers = flower			away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
13	attend		Princess					nom attention «cognition intransitive»: 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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