The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 51

This he did, but afterwards wished to kiss the Princess’s hand as a reward for having been so obliging; but the Fairy Melinette was not going to allow anything of that kind.

Who acts: This, reward, Fairy Melinette · What happens: do, wish, kiss, oblige, not go, allow · To what, where: hand, anything

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 (This, reward, Fairy Melinette), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 did	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wished	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 wished	cc
6	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	7 wished	advmod
7	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 did	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 kiss	mark
9	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wished	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Princess	det
11	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 hand	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 Princess	case
13	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kiss	obj
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 reward	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 reward	det
16	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kiss	obl
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 obliging	mark
18	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 obliging	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 obliging	aux
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 obliging	advmod
21	obliging	oblige	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 reward	acl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 going	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 going	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Melinette	det
25	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Melinette	compound
26	Melinette	Melinette	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 going	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 going	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 going	advmod
29	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 did	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 allow	mark
31	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 going	xcomp
32	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	31 allow	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 kind	case
34	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 kind	det
35	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 anything	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	This			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wish	participle	This not said here		afterwards property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	kiss not said to happen	to-infinitive	This not said here	the Princess's hand	as a reward	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent
4	oblige	gerund · perfect · progressive	a reward not said here			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	not go	past · progressive	the Fairy Melinette			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	allow	to-infinitive	the Fairy Melinette not said here	anything		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Beneficiary

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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