The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 78
Grannonia could keep silence no longer, and throwing off her peasant’s disguise, she discovered herself to the Prince, who was nearly beside himself with joy when he recognised his fair lady-love.
Who acts: Grannonia, Prince · What happens: keep, throw off, discover, be, recognise, love · To what, where: silence, disguise, Grannonia, fair lady love
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grannonia, Prince), 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 | Grannonia | Grannonia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 keep | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 keep | aux |
| 3 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keep | obj |
| 5 | no | no | ADV | _ | 6 longer | advmod |
| 6 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 keep | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 throwing | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 throwing | cc |
| 9 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 keep | advcl |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 disguise | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 peasant | nmod:poss |
| 12 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 disguise | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 peasant | case |
| 14 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 throwing | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 discovered | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 discovered | nsubj |
| 17 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 throwing | conj |
| 18 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 discovered | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Prince | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Prince | det |
| 21 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 discovered | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 himself | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 himself | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 himself | cop |
| 25 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 27 himself | advmod |
| 26 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 27 himself | case |
| 27 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 Prince | nmod |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 joy | case |
| 29 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 discovered | obl |
| 30 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 recognised | advmod |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 recognised | nsubj |
| 32 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 discovered | advcl |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 love | nmod:poss |
| 34 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 love | amod |
| 35 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 love | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 lady | punct |
| 37 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 recognised | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | could | Grannonia | silence | long property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silence=Theme | |||
| 2 | throw off | gerund | Grannonia not said here | Grannonia's peasant's disguise | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disguise=Theme | ||||
| 3 | discover | past | Grannonia | Grannonia | to the Prince; with joy | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic | |||
| 4 | is | past | the Prince | beside Prince; nearly property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | recognise | past | Prince | Prince's fair lady love | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer love=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | love | Prince | nom love «feeling 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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