The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 52
She appeared suddenly, in all her splendour, and cried:
Who acts: Melinette · What happens: appear, cry · To what, where: splendour
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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 appeared | nsubj |
| 2 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 2 appeared | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 splendour | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 splendour | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 splendour | det:predet |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 splendour | nmod:poss |
| 8 | splendour | splendour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 appeared | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cried | cc |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 appeared | parataxis |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | Melinette | Melinette's splendour | suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in splendour=Location | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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