The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 58

She represented to him what a powerful enchanter Grumedan was, and how, if he were provoked, he might avenge himself upon the Princess, since he was the most unjust and churlish of all the enchanters, and had often before had to be punished by the Fairy Queen for some of his ill-deeds.

Who acts: Melinette, powerful enchanter, enchanter, Fairy Queen · What happens: represent, be, provoke, avenge, have, punish · To what, where: enchanter

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, powerful enchanter, enchanter, Fairy Queen), 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 represented	nsubj
2	represented	represent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 represented	obl
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 represented	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 enchanter	det
7	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 enchanter	amod
8	enchanter	enchanter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 what	nsubj
9	Grumedan	Grumedan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 enchanter	appos
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 what	cop
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 avenge	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 avenge	cc
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 provoked	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 provoked	punct
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 provoked	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 provoked	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 provoked	aux:pass
18	provoked	provoke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 avenge	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 provoked	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 avenge	nsubj
21	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 avenge	aux
22	avenge	avenge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 represented	parataxis
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 avenge	obj
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	26 Princess	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Princess	det
26	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 avenge	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 unjust	punct
28	since	since	SCONJ	_	33 unjust	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 unjust	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 unjust	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 unjust	det
32	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	33 unjust	advmod
33	unjust	unjust	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 avenge	parataxis
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 churlish	cc
35	churlish	churlish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 unjust	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 enchanters	case
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 enchanters	det:predet
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 enchanters	det
39	enchanters	enchanter	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 churlish	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 had	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 had	cc
42	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 represented	conj
43	often	often	ADV	_	45 had	advmod
44	before	before	ADV	_	45 had	advmod
45	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 had	ccomp
46	to	to	PART	_	48 punished	mark
47	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 punished	aux:pass
48	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 had	xcomp
49	by	by	ADP	_	52 Queen	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 Queen	det
51	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 Queen	compound
52	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 punished	obl
53	for	for	ADP	_	54 some	case
54	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	48 punished	obl
55	of	of	ADP	_	59 deeds	case
56	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 deeds	nmod:poss
57	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 deeds	amod
58	-	-	PUNCT	_	57 ill	punct
59	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 some	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 represented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	represent	past	Melinette		enchanter		vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot to he=Attribute
2	is a	past	a powerful enchanter				tree rules
3	provoke a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		enchanter			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	avenge	might	enchanter	enchanter		upon the Princess	tree rules
5	is	past	enchanter			unjust property	tree rules
6	be		enchanter not said here			of all enchanters	tree rules
7	have	past	Melinette not said here				tree rules
8	have	past	Melinette not said here			before, often property	tree rules
9	punish	to-infinitive · passive	the Fairy Queen			for some	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for some=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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