The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 76
But if you like pearls, madam, why, I will soon gratify you.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: like, gratify · To what, where: pearls, 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, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 gratify | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 like | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 like | nsubj |
| 4 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 gratify | advcl |
| 5 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 like | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 madam | punct |
| 7 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pearls | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 9 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 like | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 gratify | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 gratify | aux |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 gratify | advmod |
| 14 | gratify | gratify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 gratify | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 gratify | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 gratify | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like a condition, not said to happen | present | you | pearls and madam | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot pearl=Theme | ||||
| 2 | gratify | future | I | you | soon property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
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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