The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 9
This was surrounded by a high wall, and in it the charming Potentilla was imprisoned.
Who acts: high wall · What happens: surround, imprison · To what, where: This, wall
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 (high wall), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 3 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 wall | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wall | det |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wall | amod |
| 7 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 surrounded | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 imprisoned | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 imprisoned | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 imprisoned | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 charming | det |
| 13 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 imprisoned | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | Potentilla | Potentilla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 charming | appos |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 imprisoned | aux:pass |
| 16 | imprisoned | imprison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 surrounded | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 surrounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surround | past · passive | a high wall | This | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | imprison | past · passive | wall | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=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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