The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 70
Why, if you cannot make a girl like that do as you wish, your subjects will soon forget that they are only put into this world for our pleasure.”
Who acts: you, girl, subjects, our · What happens: not make, do, wish, forget, put, please · To what, where: girl, subjects, world
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, girl, subjects, our), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 make | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 make | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 make | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 make | advmod |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obj |
| 10 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 do | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 girl | acl:relcl |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 wish | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 wish | nsubj |
| 15 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 forget | punct |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 18 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 forget | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 forget | aux |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 forget | advmod |
| 21 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 make | conj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 put | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 put | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 put | aux:pass |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 put | advmod |
| 26 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 forget | advcl |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 world | case |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 world | det |
| 29 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 put | obl |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 pleasure | case |
| 31 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 pleasure | nmod:poss |
| 32 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 put | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | can | you | a girl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Product | ||||
| 2 | do | present | a girl | a girl not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | wish | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | forget | future | your subjects | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | put | present · passive | subjects = subject | this world | for our pleasure | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | |||
| 6 | please | our | nom pleasure «feeling 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 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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