The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 32
‘Percinet, if you can still care for such an imprudent Princess, do come and help me once more.’
Who acts: Percinet · What happens: care, come, help · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Percinet), 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 | _ | 2 Percinet | punct |
| 2 | Percinet | Percinet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 care | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Percinet | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 care | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 care | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 care | aux |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 care | advmod |
| 8 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 Princess | case |
| 10 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 Princess | det:predet |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 Princess | det |
| 12 | imprudent | imprudent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Princess | amod |
| 13 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 care | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | aux |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 care | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 help | cc |
| 18 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | conj |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 help | obj |
| 20 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 21 more | advmod |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 help | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 care | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 care | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | care | can | Percinet | still | for such imprudent Princess | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for princess=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | infinitive · do-support | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | help | infinitive | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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