The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 86

‘And fancy giving a banquet without so much as an ounce of plate!’

What happens: give · To what, where: banquet

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: 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	_	4 giving	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 giving	cc
3	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 giving	amod
4	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 banquet	det
6	banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 giving	obj
7	without	without	ADP	_	9 much	case
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 giving	obl
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 ounce	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 ounce	det
12	ounce	ounce	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 much	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 plate	case
14	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ounce	nmod
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 giving	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 giving	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	gerund		a banquet				without much as a ounce of plate	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banquet=Theme

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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