The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 61

Then began a struggle between Grumedan and the Prince, the latter under the name of Melinette, as to which could best delight and divert the Princess and win her approbation.

Who acts: Princess · What happens: begin, divert, win, name, approbate · To what, where: struggle, Princess, approbation, Melinette

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 (Princess), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 began	advmod
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 struggle	det
4	struggle	struggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 began	obj
5	between	between	ADP	_	6 Grumedan	case
6	Grumedan	Grumedan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 struggle	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Prince	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Prince	det
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Grumedan	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 latter	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 latter	det
12	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 struggle	conj
13	under	under	ADP	_	15 name	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 name	det
15	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 latter	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Melinette	case
17	Melinette	Melinette	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 name	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 delight	punct
19	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	24 delight	case
20	to	to	ADP	_	19 as	fixed
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 delight	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 delight	aux
23	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 delight	amod
24	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 began	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 divert	cc
26	divert	divert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Princess	det
28	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 divert	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 win	cc
30	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 began	conj
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 approbation	nmod:poss
32	approbation	approbation	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 win	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past		a struggle	then	between Grumedan and the Prince; as best delight	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent struggle=Eventuality
2	divert	infinitive		the Princess			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus princess=Experiencer
3	win	present		Princess's approbation			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent approbation=Eventuality
4	name			Melinette			nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient
5	approbate		Princess				nom approbation «feeling transitive»: poss=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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