The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 123
‘Why, I am Grumedan, the Enchanter,’ said he, ‘and I am come to make your fortune.
Who acts: I, Grumedan · What happens: be, say, come, make · To what, where: Grumedan, fortune · 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, Grumedan), 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 | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Grumedan | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 Grumedan | nsubj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Grumedan | cop |
| 6 | Grumedan | Grumedan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Enchanter | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Enchanter | det |
| 9 | Enchanter | Enchanter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Grumedan | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Enchanter | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Enchanter | 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 | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 come | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 come | nsubj |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 come | aux |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 make | mark |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 come | xcomp |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 23 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 make | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | Grumedan | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Grumedan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | I not said here | your fortune | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fortune=Product |
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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