The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 80
The next day Prince Narcissus had prepared for the Princess’s pleasure a charming arbour of leafy branches, with couches of moss and grassy floor and garlands everywhere, with her name written in different coloured blossoms.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: prepare, charm, write, please, name · To what, where: next day, name, different coloured blossoms
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 (Princess), 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 | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 day | appos |
| 5 | Narcissus | Narcissus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Prince | flat |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 prepared | aux |
| 7 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 pleasure | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Princess | det |
| 10 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 pleasure | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Princess | case |
| 12 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prepared | obl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 arbour | det |
| 14 | charming | charm | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 arbour | amod |
| 15 | arbour | arbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pleasure | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 branches | case |
| 17 | leafy | leafy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 branches | amod |
| 18 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 arbour | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 couches | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 couches | case |
| 21 | couches | couch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 prepared | parataxis |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 moss | case |
| 23 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 couches | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 floor | cc |
| 25 | grassy | grassy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 floor | amod |
| 26 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 couches | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 garlands | cc |
| 28 | garlands | garland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 couches | conj |
| 29 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 prepared | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 name | punct |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 name | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 name | nmod:poss |
| 33 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prepared | parataxis |
| 34 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 name | acl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 blossoms | case |
| 36 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 blossoms | amod |
| 37 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 blossoms | amod |
| 38 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 written | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 prepared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | past · perfect · passive | the next day | for the Princess's pleasure; everywhere property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for pleasure=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | charm | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | write | participle | Princess's name not said here | different coloured blossoms | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in blossom=Destination | ||||
| 4 | please | the Princess | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | name | Princess | nom name «communication 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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