--- title: When she recovered her senses she was more than ever convinced that… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When she recovered her senses she was more than ever convinced that he was dead, since even Melinette was no longer near her, and no one was left to defend her from the odious old Enchanter. Who acts: Potentilla, enchanter, Melinette. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narci --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/105/) [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/) / 105 # The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 105 When she recovered her senses she was more than ever convinced that he was dead, since even Melinette was no longer near her, and no one was left to defend her from the odious old Enchanter. **Who acts:** Potentilla, enchanter, Melinette · **What happens:** recover, be, leave, defend · **To what, where:** senses, one, Potentilla 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, enchanter, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7277:11:105 # text = When she recovered her senses she was more than ever convinced that he was dead, since even Melinette was no longer near her, and no one was left to defend her from the odious old Enchanter. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 recovered recover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 senses sens NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 obj _ _ 9 than than ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 11 advmod _ _ 11 convinced convinced ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 17 since since SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 18 even even ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 Melinette Melinette PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 21 no no ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 24 advmod _ _ 23 near near ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 28 det _ _ 28 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 defend defend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 advcl _ _ 33 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 36 odious odious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 37 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 Enchanter Enchanter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **recover** | past | Potentilla | Potentilla's senses | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sens=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | Potentilla | | | | | more *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | Potentilla *not said here* | | | | ever | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | past | enchanter | | | | | dead *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | past | Melinette | | | | | near Melinette; long *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **leave** | past · passive | | no one | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 7 | **defend** | to-infinitive | | | Potentilla | | | from the odious old Enchanter | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary from enchanter=Theme | 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 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/104/) - next →: [sentence 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/106/) - ↑ back to [Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/)