The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 44
Well, they are not rare; you shall have as many as you like.’
Who acts: teeth, you · What happens: not be, have, like · To what, where: many
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 (teeth, 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 rare | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rare | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 rare | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 rare | advmod |
| 6 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 have | aux |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 rare | parataxis |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 many | advmod |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 have | obj |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 like | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 like | nsubj |
| 15 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 many | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | teeth = tooth | rare property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | shall | you | many | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient | ||||
| 3 | like | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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