The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 115
Pray, what may you have paid for these fine clothes?’
Who acts: you · What happens: pray, pay
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), 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 | Pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 paid | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 paid | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 paid | aux |
| 7 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Pray | parataxis |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 clothes | case |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 clothes | det |
| 10 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 clothes | amod |
| 11 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 paid | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pray | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | imperative | you not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | pay | may · perfect · passive | for this fine clothes | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Asset for clothes=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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