The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 67

Really, if Narcissus had not been there to whisper in her ear and divert her attention, I don’t know what would have become of poor Potentilla, for though the first repetition of this absurdity amused her faintly, she nearly died of weariness before the time was over.

Who acts: Narcissus, I, first repetition, Potentilla, time, absurdity · What happens: not be, whisper, divert, not know, become, amuse · To what, where: ear, attention, Potentilla · 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 (Narcissus, I, first repetition, 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	Really	really	ADV	_	8 there	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Really	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 there	mark
4	Narcissus	Narcissus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 there	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 there	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 there	advmod
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 there	cop
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 whisper	mark
10	whisper	whisper	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 there	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 ear	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 ear	nmod:poss
13	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 whisper	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 divert	cc
15	divert	divert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 whisper	conj
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 attention	nmod:poss
17	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 divert	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 know	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 know	nsubj
20	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 know	aux
21	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 know	advmod
22	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 there	conj
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 become	xcomp
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 become	aux
25	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 become	aux
26	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 know	ccomp
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 Potentilla	case
28	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Potentilla	amod
29	Potentilla	Potentilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 become	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 amused	punct
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	39 amused	mark
32	though	though	SCONJ	_	39 amused	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 repetition	det
34	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	35 repetition	amod
35	repetition	repetition	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 amused	nsubj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 absurdity	case
37	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 absurdity	det
38	absurdity	absurdity	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 repetition	nmod
39	amused	amuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 know	conj
40	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 amused	obj
41	faintly	faintly	ADV	_	39 amused	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 died	punct
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 died	nsubj
44	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	45 died	advmod
45	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 there	parataxis
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 weariness	case
47	weariness	weariness	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 died	obl
48	before	before	SCONJ	_	52 over	mark
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 time	det
50	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 over	nsubj
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 over	cop
52	over	over	ADV	_	45 died	advcl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 there	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past · perfect	Narcissus			there property	tree rules
2	whisper speech: assert	to-infinitive	Narcissus not said here		Potentilla's ear		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location
3	divert	infinitive	Narcissus not said here	Potentilla's attention			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus attention=Experiencer
4	not know	present · do-support	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	become	would · perfect				of poor Potentilla	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	amuse	past	the first repetition of this absurdity	Potentilla		faintly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
7	die	past	Potentilla			of weariness; nearly property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of weariness=Causer
8	is	past	the time			over property	tree rules
9	attend		Potentilla				nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent
10	repeat		this absurdity				nom repetition «event intransitive»: of=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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