The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 69

The Prince’s next idea for Potentilla’s amusement was to cause a fleet of boats exactly like those of Cleopatra, of which you have doubtless read in history, to come up the little river, and upon the most gorgeously decorated of these reclined the great Queen herself, who, as soon as she reached the place where Potentilla sat in rapt attention, stepped majestically on shore and presented the Princess with that celebrated pearl of which you have heard so much, saying:

Who acts: next idea, you, Potentilla · What happens: be, have, read, come up, decorate, recline · To what, where: history, little river, place, rapt attention, shore, Princess · 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 (next idea, you, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 idea	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 Prince	case
4	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 idea	amod
5	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cause	nsubj
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 amusement	case
7	Potentilla	Potentilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 amusement	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 Potentilla	case
9	amusement	amusement	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 idea	nmod
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cause	cop
11	to	to	PART	_	12 cause	mark
12	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fleet	det
14	fleet	fleet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cause	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 boats	case
16	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fleet	nmod
17	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	19 those	advmod
18	like	like	ADP	_	19 those	case
19	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	16 boats	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 Cleopatra	case
21	Cleopatra	Cleopatra	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 those	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 have	obl
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 have	nsubj
26	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 cause	parataxis
27	doubtless	doubtless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 have	xcomp
28	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 doubtless	acl
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 history	case
30	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 read	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 come	punct
32	to	to	PART	_	33 come	mark
33	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 cause	conj
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 come	compound:prt
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 river	det
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 river	amod
37	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 come	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 decorated	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 decorated	cc
40	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	44 decorated	mark
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 decorated	det
42	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	43 gorgeously	advmod
43	gorgeously	gorgeously	ADV	_	44 decorated	advmod
44	decorated	decorate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 cause	parataxis
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 these	case
46	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	44 decorated	obl
47	reclined	recline	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 decorated	conj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 Queen	det
49	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 Queen	amod
50	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 reclined	obl:agent
51	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	50 Queen	nmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 who	punct
53	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	50 Queen	parataxis
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 soon	punct
55	as	as	ADV	_	56 soon	advmod
56	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	53 who	advmod
57	as	as	SCONJ	_	59 reached	mark
58	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 reached	nsubj
59	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 soon	advcl
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 place	det
61	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 reached	obj
62	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	64 sat	advmod
63	Potentilla	Potentilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	64 sat	nsubj
64	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 place	acl:relcl
65	in	in	ADP	_	67 attention	case
66	rapt	rapt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 attention	amod
67	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 sat	obl
68	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 stepped	punct
69	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 reached	parataxis
70	majestically	majestically	ADV	_	69 stepped	advmod
71	on	on	ADP	_	72 shore	case
72	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 stepped	obl
73	and	and	CCONJ	_	74 presented	cc
74	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	69 stepped	conj
75	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	76 Princess	det
76	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 presented	obj
77	with	with	ADP	_	80 pearl	case
78	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	80 pearl	det
79	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	80 pearl	amod
80	pearl	pearl	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 presented	obl
81	of	of	ADP	_	82 which	case
82	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	85 heard	obl
83	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	85 heard	nsubj
84	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	85 heard	aux
85	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	80 pearl	acl:relcl
86	so	so	ADV	_	87 much	advmod
87	much	much	ADV	_	85 heard	advmod
88	,	,	PUNCT	_	89 saying	punct
89	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	85 heard	advcl
90	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 cause	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Prince's next idea for Potentilla's amusement				cause property	tree rules
2	have	present	you				doubtless property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	read	participle				history		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come up	to-infinitive	the Prince's next idea for Potentilla's amusement not said here	the little river				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location river=Theme
5	decorate	participle					of these; gorgeously property	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	recline	participle						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	reach	past	Potentilla	the place				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme
8	sit	past	Potentilla			rapt attention		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in attention=Location
9	step	past				shore	majestically property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Trajectory
10	present	past			the Princess		with that celebrated pearl	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient with pearl=Theme
11	celebrate	participle						vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
12	hear	present · perfect	you				of that celebrated pearl	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of which=Stimulus
13	say speech: assert	gerund	you not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
14	amuse		Potentilla					nom amusement «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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