The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 49

Therefore I beg you to hide what you really feel, and we will hope that some way out of the difficulty may present itself.’

Who acts: I, you, we, way · What happens: beg, hide, feel, hope, present · To what, where: you, way · 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, you, we, way), 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	Therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 beg	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 beg	nsubj
3	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 beg	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hide	mark
6	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 beg	advcl
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 hide	obj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 feel	nsubj
9	really	really	ADV	_	10 feel	advmod
10	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 what	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hope	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hope	cc
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 hope	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 hope	aux
15	hope	hope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 beg	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 present	mark
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 way	det
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 present	nsubj
19	out	out	ADP	_	22 difficulty	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 difficulty	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 difficulty	det
22	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 way	nmod
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 present	aux
24	present	present	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 hope	ccomp
25	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 present	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 beg	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 beg	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	present	I		you	therefore property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	hide	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
3	feel	present	you				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	hope	future	we				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	present	may	some way out the difficulty	way			vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme

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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