The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 71

Let my example warn you to make a better use of your beauty!’

Who acts: you, example, my · What happens: let, warn, make, exemplify, use · To what, where: example, you, better use, beauty

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, example, my), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 example	nmod:poss
3	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Let	obj
4	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 warn	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 warn	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 use	det
9	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 use	amod
10	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 beauty	case
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 beauty	nmod:poss
13	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 use	nmod
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	my example		tree rules
2	warn speech: warn	infinitive	my example not said here		you	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	make	to-infinitive	my example not said here	a better use of your beauty		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset use=Product
4	exemplify		my			nom example «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
5	use			your beauty		nom use «act transitive»: of=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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