The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 65

When the time came for the performance (which lasted five weary hours) the Princess found to her dismay that the ‘opera’ consisted of this more than indifferent verse, chanted with all their might by ten thousand frogs:

Who acts: time, performance, Princess, opera · What happens: come, last, find, consist, chant, dismay · To what, where: more · 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 (time, performance, Princess, opera), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 found	advcl
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 performance	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 performance	det
7	performance	performance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 lasted	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 lasted	nsubj
10	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 performance	acl:relcl
11	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 hours	nummod
12	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hours	amod
13	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lasted	obj
14	)	)	PUNCT	_	10 lasted	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Princess	det
16	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 found	nsubj
17	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 dismay	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 dismay	nmod:poss
20	dismay	dismay	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 found	obl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 consisted	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 opera	det
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 opera	punct
24	opera	opera	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 consisted	nsubj
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 opera	punct
26	consisted	consist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 found	ccomp
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 this	case
28	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 consisted	obl
29	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 consisted	obj
30	than	than	ADP	_	32 verse	case
31	indifferent	indifferent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 verse	amod
32	verse	verse	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 more	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 chanted	punct
34	chanted	chant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 consisted	parataxis
35	with	with	SCONJ	_	38 might	mark
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 might	det:predet
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 might	nmod:poss
38	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 chanted	conj
39	by	by	ADP	_	42 frogs	case
40	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 thousand	compound
41	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 frogs	nummod
42	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 might	obl
43	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the time			for the performance	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	last	past	the performance		hour		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
3	find	past	the Princess			to Princess's dismay	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	consist	participle	the opera	more		of this	tree rules
5	chant	participle					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	dismay		Princess				nom dismay «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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