The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 84
Meanwhile the Enchanter was very ill-pleased with the entertainment, which he declared was dulness itself.
Who acts: Enchanter · What happens: be, declare · To what, where: entertainment, pleased dulness
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 (Enchanter), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 8 pleased | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Enchanter | det |
| 3 | Enchanter | Enchanter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 pleased | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pleased | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 pleased | advmod |
| 6 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pleased | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 pleased | punct |
| 8 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 dulness | amod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 entertainment | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 entertainment | det |
| 11 | entertainment | entertainment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pleased | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 declared | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 declared | obj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 declared | nsubj |
| 15 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 entertainment | acl:relcl |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 dulness | cop |
| 17 | dulness | dulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 17 dulness | nmod:unmarked |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 dulness | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Enchanter | with the entertainment; meanwhile, pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | declare speech: other | past | enchanter | the entertainment | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | pleased dulness | dulness nmod:unmarked | tree rules |
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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