The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 89
The Enchanter ate like six ogres, but the Princess could not touch a morsel.
Who acts: Enchanter, Princess · What happens: eat, not touch · To what, where: morsel
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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Enchanter | det |
| 2 | Enchanter | Enchanter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ate | nsubj |
| 3 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 ogres | case |
| 5 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 ogres | nummod |
| 6 | ogres | ogre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ate | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 touch | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 touch | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Princess | det |
| 10 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 touch | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 touch | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 touch | advmod |
| 13 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ate | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 morsel | det |
| 15 | morsel | morsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 touch | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | the Enchanter | like six ogres | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not touch | could | the Princess | a morsel | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme morsel=Co-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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