--- title: Prince Narcissus first made friends with all the birds in Potentilla… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Prince Narcissus first made friends with all the birds in Potentilla’s little domain, and taught them to sing her name and her praises, with all their sweetest trills and most touching melodies, and all day long to tell her how dearly he loved her. Who acts: Prince, Potentilla, praises. 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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 (Prince, Potentilla, praises), 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:pg7277:11:62 # text = Prince Narcissus first made friends with all the birds in Potentilla’s little domain, and taught them to sing her name and her praises, with all their sweetest trills and most touching melodies, and all day long to tell her how dearly he loved her. 1 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 Narcissus Narcissus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 advmod _ _ 4 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 9 det:predet _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 Potentilla Potentilla PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ’s 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 domain domain NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 taught teach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 praises praise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 28 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 31 det:predet _ _ 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 sweetest sweet ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 31 amod _ _ 31 trills trill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 35 amod _ _ 34 touching touch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 amod _ _ 35 melodies melody NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 39 det _ _ 39 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl:unmarked _ _ 40 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 advcl _ _ 43 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 iobj _ _ 44 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 45 advmod _ _ 45 dearly dearly ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 46 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 47 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 advcl _ _ 48 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | Prince | friends | | | | with all birds in Potentilla's little domain; first, long *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Product | | 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | Prince *not said here* | | birds *= bird* | | | with praises's sweetest trills and most touching melodies | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | Potentilla's name and Potentilla's praises | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location name=Theme | | 4 | **touch** | gerund | | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | | friend | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 6 | **love** | past | Prince | friend | | | | dearly *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 7 | **name** | | Potentilla | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **praise** | | Potentilla | | | | | | nom praise «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 9 | **trill** | | praises *= praise* | | | | | | nom trill «communication 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. - ← previous: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/63/) - ↑ back to [Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/)