The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 60

The Fairy finally made Narcissus promise that he would remain invisible when he was with the Princess, since she felt sure that this would make things easier for all of them.

Who acts: Fairy, enchanter, this · What happens: make, remain, be, feel · To what, where: Narcissus promise, things

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 (Fairy, enchanter, this), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Fairy	det
2	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
3	finally	finally	ADV	_	4 made	advmod
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Narcissus	Narcissus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 promise	compound
6	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 remain	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 remain	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 remain	aux
10	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 promise	acl
11	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 remain	xcomp
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 Princess	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 Princess	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 Princess	cop
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 Princess	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Princess	det
17	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 remain	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 felt	punct
19	since	since	SCONJ	_	21 felt	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 felt	nsubj
21	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
22	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 felt	xcomp
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 make	mark
24	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 make	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 make	aux
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 felt	advcl
27	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 make	obj
28	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 make	xcomp
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 all	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 easier	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 all	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	the Fairy	Narcissus promise	finally property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Product
2	remain	would	enchanter	Narcissus promise not said here	invisible property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme promise=Attribute
3	is	past	enchanter		with the Princess	tree rules
4	feel	past	Fairy		sure property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	make	would	this	things	easy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product

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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