The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 99

He went to the Princess suddenly, and announced that he was most unwillingly forced to leave her, and had come to bid her farewell.

Who acts: enchanter · What happens: go, announce, force, leave, come, bid · To what, where: enchanter, Princess, farewell · 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 (enchanter), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 Princess	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Princess	det
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 announced	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 announced	cc
9	announced	announce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 forced	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 forced	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 forced	aux:pass
13	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	14 unwillingly	advmod
14	unwillingly	unwillingly	ADV	_	15 forced	advmod
15	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 announced	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 leave	mark
17	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 forced	xcomp
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 leave	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 come	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 come	cc
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 come	aux
22	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 went	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	24 bid	mark
24	bid	bid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 come	xcomp
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 farewell	nmod:poss
26	farewell	farewell	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bid	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	enchanter		to the Princess; suddenly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to princess=Initial_Location
2	announce speech: other	past	enchanter not said here			vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	force	past · passive		enchanter	unwillingly property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
4	leave	to-infinitive	enchanter not said here	Princess		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	come	past · perfect				tree rules
6	bid	to-infinitive		Princess's farewell		tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/99/