The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 102
‘But you are very smartly dressed for the kind of life you lead,’ continued the old woman.
Who acts: you, old woman · What happens: dress, lead, continue · To what, where: you, life
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 (you, old woman), 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 | _ | 17 continued | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 dressed | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 dressed | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dressed | aux:pass |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 smartly | advmod |
| 6 | smartly | smartly | ADV | _ | 7 dressed | advmod |
| 7 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 continued | advcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 kind | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 kind | det |
| 10 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dressed | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 life | case |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kind | nmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 lead | nsubj |
| 14 | lead | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 life | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dressed | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 dressed | punct |
| 17 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 woman | det |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 woman | amod |
| 20 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 continued | nsubj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | present · passive | you | for the kind of life; smartly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lead | present | you | life not said here | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 3 | continue | past | the old woman | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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