The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 79
And truly there were enough of them to pave every path in Potentilla’s garden and leave some to spare!
Who acts: hundreds · What happens: be, pave, leave, spare · To what, where: path, some
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 (hundreds), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 enough | cc |
| 2 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 4 were | advmod |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 were | expl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 enough | cop |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 pave | mark |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pave | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 pave | mark |
| 9 | pave | pave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 enough | advcl |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 path | det |
| 11 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pave | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 garden | case |
| 13 | Potentilla | Potentilla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 garden | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Potentilla | case |
| 15 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pave | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 leave | cc |
| 17 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pave | conj |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 leave | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 spare | mark |
| 20 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 leave | advcl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 enough | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | enough property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pave | to-infinitive | hundreds = hundred | every path | in Potentilla's garden | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent path=Destination in garden=Theme | |||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | hundreds = hundred not said here | some | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme | ||||
| 4 | spare | to-infinitive | hundreds = hundred not said here | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: 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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