The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 81
Here he caused a dainty little banquet to be set forth, while hidden musicians played softly, and the silvery fountains plashed down into their marble basins, and when presently the music stopped a single nightingale broke the stillness with his delicious chant.
Who acts: Prince, hidden musicians, silvery fountains, music, single nightingale · What happens: cause, set, play, plash down, stop, break · To what, where: dainty little banquet, marble basins, stillness
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 (Prince, hidden musicians, silvery fountains, music), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 caused | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 caused | nsubj |
| 3 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 banquet | det |
| 5 | dainty | dainty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 banquet | amod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 banquet | amod |
| 7 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caused | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 set | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 set | aux:pass |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 banquet | acl |
| 11 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 10 set | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 played | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 played | mark |
| 14 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 musicians | amod |
| 15 | musicians | musician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 played | nsubj |
| 16 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caused | conj |
| 17 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 16 played | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 plashed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 plashed | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fountains | det |
| 21 | silvery | silvery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fountains | amod |
| 22 | fountains | fountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 plashed | nsubj |
| 23 | plashed | plash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 played | conj |
| 24 | down | down | ADP | _ | 23 plashed | compound:prt |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 basins | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 basins | nmod:poss |
| 27 | marble | marble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 basins | amod |
| 28 | basins | basin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 plashed | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 stopped | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 stopped | cc |
| 31 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 presently | advmod |
| 32 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 35 stopped | advmod |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 music | det |
| 34 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 stopped | nsubj |
| 35 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caused | conj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 nightingale | det |
| 37 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 nightingale | amod |
| 38 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 broke | nsubj |
| 39 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 stopped | ccomp |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 stillness | det |
| 41 | stillness | stillness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 broke | obj |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 chant | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 chant | nmod:poss |
| 44 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 chant | amod |
| 45 | chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 broke | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | Prince | a dainty little banquet | here | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition banquet=Patient | |||
| 2 | set | to-infinitive · passive | Prince not said here | a dainty little banquet not said here | forth property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V» | |||
| 3 | play | past | hidden musicians | softly property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | plash down | participle | the silvery fountains | fountains's marble basins | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stop | past | the music | presently property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | break | past | a single nightingale | the stillness | with Prince's delicious chant | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent stillness=Patient with chant=Instrument | |||
| 7 | chant | Prince | nom chant «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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