The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 91

‘I have provided neither musicians nor singers; but as you seem fond of music I will sing to you myself.’

Who acts: I, you · What happens: provide, seem, sing · To what, where: musicians, myself, 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 (I, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 provided	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 provided	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 provided	aux
4	provided	provide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	6 musicians	det
6	musicians	musician	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 provided	obj
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	8 singers	cc
8	singers	singer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 musicians	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 sing	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 sing	cc
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 seem	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 seem	nsubj
13	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 sing	advcl
14	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 seem	xcomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 music	case
16	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fond	obl
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 sing	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 sing	aux
19	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 provided	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 you	case
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 sing	obl
22	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	19 sing	obl:unmarked
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 provided	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 provided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	provide	present · perfect	I	neither musicians nor singers			vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition musician=Theme
2	seem	present	you			fond property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	sing speech: express	future	I	myself	you		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient

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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