The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 94
‘Poor Princess! look in the trunk of that tree, and you will find a honeycomb, but don’t be foolish enough to share it with Fanfaronade.’
Who acts: Poor Princess, you · What happens: look, find, not be, share · To what, where: honeycomb
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Poor Princess, you), 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 look | punct |
| 2 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Princess | amod |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 look | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 Princess | punct |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 trunk | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trunk | det |
| 8 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 look | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 tree | det |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trunk | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 find | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 find | cc |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 find | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 find | aux |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 look | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 honeycomb | det |
| 18 | honeycomb | honeycomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 find | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 foolish | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 foolish | cc |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 foolish | aux |
| 22 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 foolish | advmod |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 foolish | cop |
| 24 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 look | conj |
| 25 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 24 foolish | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 share | mark |
| 27 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 foolish | xcomp |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 share | obj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 Fanfaronade | case |
| 30 | Fanfaronade | Fanfaronade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 share | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | infinitive | Poor Princess | in the trunk of that tree | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in trunk=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | future | you | a honeycomb | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honeycomb=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not is | infinitive · do-support | Poor Princess not said here | enough, foolish property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | share | to-infinitive | Poor Princess not said here | honeycomb | with Fanfaronade | tree rules |
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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