The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 107

‘I tell you what it is, madam,’ said he: ‘whether you love this whipper-snapper Prince or not doesn’t matter in the least.

Who acts: I, matter, enchanter, you · What happens: tell, be, say, love, not matter · To what, where: madam, you, Prince, least · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, matter, enchanter, 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	_	3 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 tell	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 what	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	cop
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 madam	punct
9	madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 love	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 love	punct
16	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	18 love	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 love	nsubj
18	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	parataxis
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 snapper	det
20	whipper	whipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 snapper	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 whipper	punct
22	snapper	snapper	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Prince	nmod:desc
23	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 love	obj
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 matter	cc
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 matter	advmod
26	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 matter	aux
27	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 matter	advmod
28	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 love	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 least	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 least	det
31	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 matter	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	I	madam	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	is a	present	matter				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	enchanter				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	love	present	you	Prince this whipper snapper			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus
5	not matter	present · do-support	you not said here			the least	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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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