The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 53
‘Stay, Grumedan; this Princess is under my protection, and the smallest impertinence will cost you a thousand years of captivity.
Who acts: you, Princess, smallest impertinence · What happens: stay, be, cost · To what, where: Grumedan, protection, you
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, Princess, smallest impertinence), 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 Stay | punct |
| 2 | Stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Grumedan | punct |
| 4 | Grumedan | Grumedan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Stay | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 protection | punct |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 Princess | det |
| 7 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 protection | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 protection | cop |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 protection | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 protection | nmod:poss |
| 11 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Stay | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cost | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cost | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 impertinence | det |
| 15 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 impertinence | amod |
| 16 | impertinence | impertinence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cost | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 cost | aux |
| 18 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Stay | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 cost | iobj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 thousand | det |
| 21 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 years | nummod |
| 22 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 cost | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 captivity | case |
| 24 | captivity | captivity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 years | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | imperative | you not said here | Grumedan | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme grumedan=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | this Princess | my protection | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cost | future | the smallest impertinence | you | year | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme you=Value |
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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