The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 101
I would give it to you with all the pleasure in life.’
Who acts: I · What happens: give · To what, where: head, you
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 give | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 give | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 pleasure | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 pleasure | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pleasure | det |
| 10 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 life | case |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pleasure | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | would | I | head | you | with all pleasure in life | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme 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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