The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 97

But, in spite of Potentilla’s efforts to behave politely to the tiresome old Enchanter, whom she detested, he could not help seeing that he failed to please her, and then he began to suspect very strongly that she must love someone else, and that somebody besides Melinette was responsible for all the festivities he had witnessed.

Who acts: spite, enchanter, somebody, Melinette · What happens: behave, detest, not help, see, fail, not please · To what, where: tiresome old Enchanter, spite, someone, festivities, efforts · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (spite, enchanter, somebody, Melinette), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 behave	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spite	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 spite	case
4	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 behave	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 efforts	case
6	Potentilla	Potentilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 efforts	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 Potentilla	case
8	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spite	nmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 behave	mark
10	behave	behave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	politely	politely	ADV	_	10 behave	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	16 Enchanter	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Enchanter	det
14	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Enchanter	amod
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Enchanter	amod
16	Enchanter	Enchanter	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 behave	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 detested	punct
18	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 detested	obj
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 detested	nsubj
20	detested	detest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 Enchanter	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 help	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 help	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 help	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 help	advmod
25	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 behave	parataxis
26	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 help	xcomp
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 failed	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 failed	nsubj
29	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 seeing	ccomp
30	to	to	PART	_	31 please	mark
31	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 failed	xcomp
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 please	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 began	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 began	cc
35	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 began	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 began	nsubj
37	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 help	parataxis
38	to	to	PART	_	39 suspect	mark
39	suspect	suspect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 began	xcomp
40	very	very	ADV	_	41 strongly	advmod
41	strongly	strongly	ADV	_	39 suspect	advmod
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 love	mark
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 love	nsubj
44	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 love	aux
45	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 suspect	advcl
46	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	45 love	obj
47	else	else	ADV	_	46 someone	advmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 besides	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 besides	cc
50	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	51 somebody	det
51	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	52 besides	nsubj
52	besides	beside	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 behave	parataxis
53	Melinette	Melinette	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 responsible	nsubj
54	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 responsible	cop
55	responsible	responsible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 besides	ccomp
56	for	for	ADP	_	59 festivities	case
57	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	59 festivities	det:predet
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 festivities	det
59	festivities	festivity	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 responsible	obl
60	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 witnessed	nsubj
61	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 witnessed	aux
62	witnessed	witness	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	59 festivities	acl:relcl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 behave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	behave	to-infinitive	spite of Potentilla's efforts			to the tiresome old Enchanter; politely property	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
2	detest	past	spite	the tiresome old Enchanter			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
3	not help	could	enchanter				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	see not said to happen	gerund	enchanter not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	fail	past	enchanter				vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	not please	to-infinitive	enchanter not said here	spite			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
7	begin	past	enchanter		then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	suspect	to-infinitive	enchanter not said here			strongly property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
9	love	must	spite	someone			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus
10	beside	present	somebody				tree rules
11	is	past	Melinette			for all festivities; responsible property	tree rules
12	witness	past · perfect	enchanter	all festivities not said here			vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent festivity=Beneficiary
13	spite			Potentilla's efforts			nom spite «feeling 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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