The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 120

‘Shake hands, Cloverleaf, old fellow!

Who acts: you · What happens: shake · To what, where: hands

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 (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	_	2 Shake	punct
2	Shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Shake	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Cloverleaf	punct
5	Cloverleaf	cloverleaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Shake	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fellow	punct
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fellow	amod
8	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Shake	obl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Shake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	imperative	you not said here	hands				old fellow obl	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme cloverleaf=Destination

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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