The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 82
‘Ah!’ cried the Princess, recognizing the voice of one of her favourites, ‘Philomel, my sweet one, who taught you that new song?’
Who acts: sweet one · What happens: cry, recognize, teach · To what, where: Princess, voice, new song, you
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 (sweet one), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 cried | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Princess | det |
| 7 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 recognizing | punct |
| 9 | recognizing | recognize | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 cried | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 voice | det |
| 11 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 recognizing | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 one | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 voice | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 favourites | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 favourites | nmod:poss |
| 16 | favourites | favourite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 one | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Philomel | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 Philomel | punct |
| 19 | Philomel | philomel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 recognizing | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 one | nmod:poss |
| 22 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 one | amod |
| 23 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 taught | punct |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 taught | nsubj |
| 26 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 one | acl:relcl |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 taught | obj |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 song | mark |
| 29 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 song | amod |
| 30 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 taught | xcomp |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the Princess | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic | |||||
| 2 | recognize | gerund | the voice of one of Princess's favourites | Philomel obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | teach speech: other | past | my sweet one | new song | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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