The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 67
“You are very kind to trouble yourself about this little girl; if I were you I would soon make her obey me.
Who acts: You, evil adviser, girl · What happens: be, make, obey · To what, where: you, girl, evil adviser
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, evil adviser, girl), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 kind | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 kind | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 kind | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 kind | advmod |
| 5 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 trouble | mark |
| 7 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kind | advcl |
| 8 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 trouble | nmod |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 girl | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 girl | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 girl | amod |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trouble | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 make | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 you | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 you | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 you | cop |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 make | nsubj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 make | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 make | aux |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 make | advmod |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 kind | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 make | obj |
| 23 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 make | xcomp |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 obey | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | this evil adviser = adviser | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | would | you | girl | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | obey in a quote | infinitive | girl not said here | this evil adviser = adviser | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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