The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 102
While Paridamie decided to display to admiring mortals a Princess so charming that no one could see her without falling in love with her.
Who acts: Paridamie, one · What happens: decide, display, admire, see, fall · To what, where: charming, admiring mortals, Paridamie, love
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paridamie, one), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 3 decided | mark |
| 2 | Paridamie | Paridamie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 decided | nsubj |
| 3 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 display | mark |
| 5 | display | display | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 decided | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 mortals | case |
| 7 | admiring | admire | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 mortals | amod |
| 8 | mortals | mortal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 display | obl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Princess | det |
| 10 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mortals | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 charming | advmod |
| 12 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 display | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 charming | acl |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 see | obj |
| 19 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 20 falling | mark |
| 20 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 see | advcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 love | case |
| 22 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 falling | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 falling | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | Paridamie | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | display not said to happen | to-infinitive | Paridamie not said here | charming | admiring mortals a Princess | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to mortal=Recipient | |||
| 3 | admire | gerund | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | see | could | no one | Paridamie | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | fall | gerund | no one not said here | love | with Paridamie | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location |
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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