The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 68

Luckily Grumedan did not perceive this, as he was too much occupied in whipping up the frogs, many of whom perished miserably from fatigue, since he did not allow them to rest for a moment.

Who acts: Grumedan, many · What happens: not perceive, be, whip up, perish, not allow, rest · To what, where: this, frogs, fatigue

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 (Grumedan, many), 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	Luckily	luckily	ADV	_	5 perceive	advmod
2	Grumedan	Grumedan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 perceive	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 perceive	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 perceive	advmod
5	perceive	perceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 perceive	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 occupied	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 occupied	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 occupied	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 occupied	cop
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 much	advmod
12	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 occupied	amod
13	occupied	occupied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 perceive	parataxis
14	in	in	SCONJ	_	15 whipping	mark
15	whipping	whip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 occupied	advcl
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 whipping	compound:prt
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 frogs	det
18	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 whipping	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 perished	punct
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 perished	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 whom	case
22	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 many	nmod
23	perished	perish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 occupied	parataxis
24	miserably	miserably	ADV	_	23 perished	advmod
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 fatigue	case
26	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 perished	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 allow	punct
28	since	since	SCONJ	_	32 allow	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 allow	nsubj
30	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 allow	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 allow	advmod
32	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 perceive	conj
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 allow	iobj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 rest	mark
35	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 allow	xcomp
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 moment	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 moment	det
38	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 rest	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 perceive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not perceive	past · do-support	Grumedan	this				luckily property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	is	past	Grumedan					occupied property	tree rules
3	whip up	gerund	Grumedan not said here	the frogs					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent frog=Material
4	perish	past	many			fatigue		miserably property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from fatigue=Causer
5	not allow	past · do-support	Grumedan		frogs = frog				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer they=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
6	rest not said to happen	to-infinitive	Grumedan not said here				moment		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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