The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 4
But it is chiefly of the Princess Sylvia that you are going to hear now.
Who acts: it · What happens: be, hear
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Fairy Gifts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 going | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 going | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 going | cop |
| 4 | chiefly | chiefly | ADV | _ | 12 going | advmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Sylvia | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Sylvia | det |
| 7 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Sylvia | compound |
| 8 | Sylvia | Sylvia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 chiefly | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 going | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 going | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 going | aux |
| 12 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 hear | mark |
| 14 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 going | xcomp |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 hear | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · progressive | it | chiefly, go property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | now | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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.
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