The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 73
Grumedan was also looking on at the spectacle, and said very contemptuously:
Who acts: Grumedan · What happens: look on, say · 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 (Grumedan), 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 | Grumedan | Grumedan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 looking | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looking | aux |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 looking | advmod |
| 4 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 looking | compound:prt |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 spectacle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 spectacle | det |
| 8 | spectacle | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looking | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looking | conj |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 contemptuously | advmod |
| 13 | contemptuously | contemptuously | ADV | _ | 11 said | advmod |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look on | past · progressive | Grumedan | at the spectacle | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at spectacle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Grumedan not said here | contemptuously property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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