The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 87
So the next day, when the Princess went out into her garden, there stood a summer-house built of solid gold, decorated within and without with her initials and the Enchanter’s combined.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: go out, stand, build, decorate, combine, initial · To what, where: garden, summer house
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 went | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Princess | det |
| 8 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 garden | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 garden | nmod:poss |
| 13 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stood | punct |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 stood | expl |
| 16 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 house | det |
| 18 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 house | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 summer | punct |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stood | obj |
| 21 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 house | acl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 gold | case |
| 23 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 gold | amod |
| 24 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 built | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 decorated | punct |
| 26 | decorated | decorate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 stood | conj |
| 27 | within | within | ADP | _ | 32 initials | case |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 without | cc |
| 29 | without | without | ADP | _ | 27 within | conj |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 initials | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 initials | nmod:poss |
| 32 | initials | initial | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 decorated | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 combined | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Enchanter | det |
| 35 | Enchanter | Enchanter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 combined | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 35 Enchanter | case |
| 37 | combined | combine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 decorated | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the Princess | Princess's garden | day | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | stand | past | the Princess not said here | a summer house | there | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | build | participle | a summer house not said here | of solid gold | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | decorate | participle | the Princess not said here | within Princess's initials | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | combine | participle | the Princess not said here | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | initial | Princess | nom initial «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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