The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 145
Perhaps you will be able to induce her to be reasonable.’
Who acts: you · What happens: be, induce · To what, where: heir
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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 able | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 able | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 able | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 able | cop |
| 5 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 induce | mark |
| 7 | induce | induce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 able | xcomp |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 induce | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 reasonable | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 reasonable | cop |
| 11 | reasonable | reasonable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 induce | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 able | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | you | able, perhaps property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | induce | to-infinitive | you not said here | heir | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | you not said here | reasonable property | tree rules |
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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