The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 92

Whereupon he began, with a voice like a screech-owl’s, to chant the words of his ‘opera,’ only this time happily not at such a length, and without the frog accompaniment.

Who acts: music · What happens: begin, chant, word · To what, where: words, opera

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 (music), 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	Whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	3 began	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 length	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 voice	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 voice	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 voice	det
7	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 began	obl
8	like	like	ADP	_	12 owl	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 owl	det
10	screech	screech	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 owl	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 screech	punct
12	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 voice	nmod
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 owl	case
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 chant	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 chant	mark
16	chant	chant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 words	det
18	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 chant	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 opera	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 opera	nmod:poss
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 opera	punct
22	opera	opera	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 words	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct
25	only	only	ADV	_	27 time	advmod
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 time	det
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 length	obl:unmarked
28	happily	happily	ADV	_	33 length	advmod
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 length	advmod
30	at	at	ADP	_	33 length	case
31	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	33 length	det:predet
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 length	det
33	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 accompaniment	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 accompaniment	cc
36	without	without	ADP	_	39 accompaniment	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 accompaniment	det
38	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 accompaniment	compound
39	accompaniment	accompaniment	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 length	parataxis
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 length	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	music		with a voice like a screech owl; whereupon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with voice=Subeventuality
2	chant	to-infinitive	music not said here	the words of music's opera		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic
3	word			music's opera		nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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