The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 56
However, he decided that to win such a beauty it was quite worth while; and Melinette, feeling that she could now leave the Princess in safety, hurried off to tell Prince Narcissus what was going forward.
Who acts: declaration, beauty, Melinette · What happens: decide, win, be, feel, leave, hurry off · To what, where: beauty, Princess, safety, Melinette, Narcissus · 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 (declaration, beauty, 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 decided | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 decided | nsubj |
| 4 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 win | mark |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 win | mark |
| 7 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 decided | xcomp |
| 8 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 beauty | det:predet |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 beauty | det |
| 10 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 win | obj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 worth | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 worth | cop |
| 13 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 14 worth | advmod |
| 14 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beauty | acl:relcl |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 worth | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 hurried | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 hurried | cc |
| 18 | Melinette | Melinette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 hurried | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 feeling | punct |
| 20 | feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 Melinette | acl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 leave | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 leave | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 leave | aux |
| 24 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 leave | advmod |
| 25 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 feeling | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Princess | det |
| 27 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 leave | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 safety | case |
| 29 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 leave | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 hurried | punct |
| 31 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 decided | conj |
| 32 | off | off | ADP | _ | 31 hurried | compound:prt |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 tell | mark |
| 34 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 hurried | advcl |
| 35 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Narcissus | nmod:desc |
| 36 | Narcissus | Narcissus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 tell | obj |
| 37 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 39 going | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 going | aux |
| 39 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 tell | ccomp |
| 40 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 39 going | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | declaration | however property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | win not said to happen | to-infinitive | declaration not said here | such beauty | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beauty=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | past | beauty | such beauty not said here | worth property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | feel | gerund | Melinette not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | leave | could | Melinette | the Princess | safety | now | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent princess=Theme in safety=Location | ||
| 6 | hurry off | participle · passive | Melinette | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent | |||||
| 7 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | Narcissus Prince | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent narcissus=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | go | past · progressive | forward property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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