The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 6
As a matter of fact, if anyone had a fancy for a town, or a province, he helped himself to it; but as long as the King had his horses and dogs, and the Queen her musicians and her actors, they did not trouble themselves about the matter.
Who acts: anyone, kingdom, King, fact · What happens: have, help, not trouble, matter · To what, where: fancy, kingdom, province, horses, King
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 (anyone, kingdom, King, fact), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 matter | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 matter | det |
| 3 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 fact | case |
| 5 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 matter | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 had | mark |
| 8 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fancy | det |
| 11 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 town | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 town | det |
| 14 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fancy | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 province | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 province | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 province | det |
| 18 | province | province | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 helped | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 helped | nsubj |
| 21 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 had | conj |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 helped | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 helped | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 long | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 long | cc |
| 27 | as | as | ADV | _ | 28 long | advmod |
| 28 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 had | advmod |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 had | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 King | det |
| 31 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 had | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 long | advcl |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 horses | nmod:poss |
| 34 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 had | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 dogs | cc |
| 36 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 horses | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Queen | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 Queen | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Queen | det |
| 40 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 had | conj |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 musicians | nmod:poss |
| 42 | musicians | musician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 Queen | parataxis |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 actors | cc |
| 44 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 actors | nmod:poss |
| 45 | actors | actor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 musicians | conj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 trouble | punct |
| 47 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 trouble | nsubj |
| 48 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 trouble | aux |
| 49 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 50 trouble | advmod |
| 50 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 Queen | appos |
| 51 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 50 trouble | nmod:unmarked |
| 52 | about | about | ADP | _ | 54 matter | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 matter | det |
| 54 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 trouble | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | anyone | a fancy | as a matter of fact; for a town; a province obl; long property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Patient | |||
| 2 | help | past | kingdom | kingdom | province | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | have | past | the King | kingdom's horses and dogs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not trouble | past · do-support | King | King | about the matter | tree rules | |||
| 5 | matter | fact | nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=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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