The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 133

‘Take my club to her Majesty,’ said he, ‘and tell her that if she smells the end of it she will find it wonderfully reviving.’

Who acts: enchanter, Queen · What happens: take, say, ‘, tell, smell, find · To what, where: club, Majesty, Queen, end · 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 (enchanter, Queen), 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 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 club	nmod:poss
4	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 Majesty	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 Majesty	nmod:poss
7	Majesty	majesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ‘	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ‘	punct
13	‘	‘	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 tell	cc
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 ‘	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tell	iobj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 find	mark
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 smells	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 smells	nsubj
20	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 find	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 end	det
22	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 smells	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 end	nmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 find	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 find	aux
27	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 tell	advcl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 find	obj
29	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	30 reviving	advmod
30	reviving	revive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 find	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	infinitive		my club		Queen's Majesty		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent club=Theme to majesty=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	‘	infinitive	enchanter					tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	enchanter not said here		Queen			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
5	smell a condition, not said to happen	present	Queen	the end of Majesty				vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer end=Stimulus
6	find	future	Queen	club				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
7	revive	gerund	Queen not said here				wonderfully property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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