--- title: Potentilla could scarcely hide her delight when she heard this, and… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Potentilla could scarcely hide her delight when she heard this, and his back was hardly turned before she was entreating Prince Narcissus to make himself visible once more. Who acts: Potentilla. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, with i --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/100/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [Prince Narcissus and the Princess Pote…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/) / 100 # The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 100 Potentilla could scarcely hide her delight when she heard this, and his back was hardly turned before she was entreating Prince Narcissus to make himself visible once more. **Who acts:** Potentilla · **What happens:** hide, hear, turn, entreat, make, delight · **To what, where:** delight, this, back, Narcissus, enchanter 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 (Potentilla), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7277:11:100 # text = Potentilla could scarcely hide her delight when she heard this, and his back was hardly turned before she was entreating Prince Narcissus to make himself visible once more. 1 Potentilla potentilla NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 scarcely scarcely ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 delight delight NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 10 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 16 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 18 before before SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 entreating entreat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 22 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod:desc _ _ 23 Narcissus Narcissus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 26 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 25 obj _ _ 27 visible visible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 28 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 29 advmod _ _ 29 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hide** | could | Potentilla | Potentilla's delight | | | | scarcely *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent delight=Patient | | 2 | **hear** | past | Potentilla | this | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | | 3 | **turn** | past · passive | | enchanter's back | | | | hardly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **entreat** | past · progressive | Potentilla | | Narcissus Prince | | | | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent narcissus=Recipient | | 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | Potentilla *not said here* | enchanter | | | | visible *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product | | 6 | **delight** | | Potentilla | | | | | | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: 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. - ← previous: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/99/) - next →: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/101/) - ↑ back to [Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/)