--- title: ‘Ah! beloved Narcissus, I come to thee!’ and was just raising it to… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Ah! beloved Narcissus, I come to thee!’ and was just raising it to her lips when the window of the great hall burst open, and the Fairy Melinette floated in upon a glowing sunset cloud, followed by the Prince himself: Who acts: I, window, Fairy Melinette. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, window, Fairy 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:pg7277:11:168 # text = ‘Ah! beloved Narcissus, I come to thee!’ and was just raising it to her lips when the window of the great hall burst open, and the Fairy Melinette floated in upon a glowing sunset cloud, followed by the Prince himself: 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Ah ah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 4 beloved beloved ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 Narcissus Narcissus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 9 to to ADP TO _ 10 case _ _ 10 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ! ! PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 just just ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 raising raise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 obl _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 21 when when SCONJ WRB _ 28 mark _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 28 burst burst VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 29 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 Fairy Fairy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 Melinette Melinette PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 floated float VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 37 upon upon ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 glowing glow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 41 amod _ _ 40 sunset sunset NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 cloud cloud NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 43 followed follow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 acl _ _ 44 by by ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 obl:agent _ _ 47 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 46 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | I | | | thee | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to thou=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **raise** | past · progressive | | jest | | Princess's lips | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to lip=Destination | | 3 | **burst** | past | the window of the great hall | | | | | open *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **float** | past | the Fairy Melinette | | | a glowing sunset cloud | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cloud=Trajectory | | 5 | **glow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **follow** | participle | | a glowing sunset cloud *not said here* | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 167](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/167/) - next →: [sentence 169](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/169/) - ↑ back to [Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/)