The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 62

Prince Narcissus first made friends with all the birds in Potentilla’s little domain, and taught them to sing her name and her praises, with all their sweetest trills and most touching melodies, and all day long to tell her how dearly he loved her.

Who acts: Prince, Potentilla, praises · What happens: make, teach, sing, touch, tell, love · To what, where: friends, birds, name, friend · 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 (Prince, Potentilla, praises), 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	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
2	Narcissus	Narcissus	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Prince	flat
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 made	advmod
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 birds	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 birds	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 birds	det
9	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 friends	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	14 domain	case
11	Potentilla	Potentilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 domain	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 Potentilla	case
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 domain	amod
14	domain	domain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 birds	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 taught	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 taught	cc
17	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 taught	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 sing	mark
20	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 taught	xcomp
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 name	nmod:poss
22	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sing	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 praises	cc
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 praises	nmod:poss
25	praises	praise	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 name	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 trills	punct
27	with	with	ADP	_	31 trills	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 trills	det:predet
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 trills	nmod:poss
30	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 trills	amod
31	trills	trill	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 taught	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 melodies	cc
33	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 melodies	amod
34	touching	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 melodies	amod
35	melodies	melody	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 trills	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 long	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 long	cc
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 day	det
39	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 long	obl:unmarked
40	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 made	advmod
41	to	to	PART	_	42 tell	mark
42	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 long	advcl
43	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 tell	iobj
44	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	45 dearly	advmod
45	dearly	dearly	ADV	_	47 loved	advmod
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 loved	nsubj
47	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 tell	advcl
48	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 loved	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	Prince	friends		with all birds in Potentilla's little domain; first, long property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Product
2	teach speech: other	past	Prince not said here		birds = bird	with praises's sweetest trills and most touching melodies	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	Prince not said here	Potentilla's name and Potentilla's praises			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location name=Theme
4	touch	gerund					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Prince not said here		friend		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
6	love	past	Prince	friend		dearly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
7	name		Potentilla				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent
8	praise		Potentilla				nom praise «communication transitive»: poss=agent
9	trill		praises = praise				nom trill «communication 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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