The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 75
What a to-do to make over a single pearl!
Who acts: you · What happens: do, make · To what, where: single pearl
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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 1 What | det |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 do | case |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 to | punct |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 make | mark |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 do | advcl |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 pearl | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pearl | det |
| 10 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pearl | amod |
| 11 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obl |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | you not said here | a single pearl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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