The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 96

After this, as many of the will-o’-the-wisps as could get in crowded into Potentilla’s garden, and by their light the tall yew-trees danced minuets until the Princess was weary and begged to be excused from looking at anything more that night.

Who acts: wisps, tall yew trees, Princess · What happens: get in, crowd, dance, be, beg, excuse · To what, where: garden, minuets

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 (wisps, tall yew trees, 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 will	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 this	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 will	mark
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 will	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 will	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 will	det
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 ’	punct
10	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	11 ’	case
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 will	punct
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 wisps	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wisps	det
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 the	punct
15	wisps	wisp	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ’	appos
16	as	as	ADV	_	18 get	advmod
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 get	aux
18	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 wisps	acl
19	in	in	ADV	_	18 get	advmod
20	crowded	crowd	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 get	xcomp
21	into	into	ADP	_	24 garden	case
22	Potentilla	Potentilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 garden	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 Potentilla	case
24	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 crowded	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 danced	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 danced	cc
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 light	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 light	nmod:poss
29	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 danced	obl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 trees	det
31	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 trees	amod
32	yew	yew	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 trees	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 yew	punct
34	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 danced	nsubj
35	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 get	conj
36	minuets	minuet	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 danced	obj
37	until	until	SCONJ	_	41 weary	mark
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Princess	det
39	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 weary	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 weary	cop
41	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 danced	advcl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 begged	cc
43	begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 weary	conj
44	to	to	PART	_	46 excused	mark
45	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 excused	aux:pass
46	excused	excuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 begged	xcomp
47	from	from	SCONJ	_	48 looking	mark
48	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 excused	advcl
49	at	at	ADP	_	50 anything	case
50	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	48 looking	obl
51	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	53 night	advmod
52	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	53 night	det
53	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 anything	nmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 will	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get in	could	the wisps not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	crowd	participle	the wisps not said here		Potentilla's garden		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into garden=Destination
3	dance	past	the tall yew trees	minuets		by wisps's light	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location minuet=Theme
4	is	past	the Princess			weary property	tree rules
5	beg speech: request	participle	the Princess not said here				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	excuse not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	the Princess not said here				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»
7	look	gerund	the Princess not said here			at anything	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at anything=Theme
8	light		wisps = wisp				nom light «phenomenon 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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