The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 66
‘Admirable Potentilla, Do you think it kind or wise In this sudden way to kill a Poor Enchanter with your eyes?’
Who acts: Admirable Potentilla · What happens: think, kill · To what, where: opera, sudden way, Poor Enchanter
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 (Admirable Potentilla), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 think | punct |
| 2 | Admirable | admirable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Potentilla | amod |
| 3 | Potentilla | Potentilla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 think | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Potentilla | punct |
| 5 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 think | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 think | nsubj |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 think | obj |
| 9 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 think | xcomp |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 wise | cc |
| 11 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 kind | conj |
| 12 | In | in | ADP | _ | 15 way | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 way | det |
| 14 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 way | amod |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 think | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 kill | mark |
| 17 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 way | acl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 Enchanter | det |
| 19 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Enchanter | amod |
| 20 | Enchanter | enchanter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kill | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 eyes | case |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 Enchanter | nmod |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 think | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · do-support | Admirable Potentilla | opera | this sudden way | kind property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||
| 2 | kill | to-infinitive | Admirable Potentilla not said here | a Poor Enchanter | with your eyes | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent enchanter=Patient with eye=Instrument |
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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