The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 116
‘Alas! madam,’ answered the Princess, ‘I did not buy them, and I know nothing about money.’
Who acts: madam, I · What happens: answer, not buy, know · To what, where: Princess, clothes, nothing
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 (madam, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 4 madam | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Princess | det |
| 9 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 buy | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 buy | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 buy | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 buy | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 buy | advmod |
| 15 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 answered | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 buy | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 know | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 know | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 know | nsubj |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 answered | parataxis |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 know | obj |
| 22 | about | about | ADP | _ | 23 money | case |
| 23 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 nothing | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | madam | the Princess | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not buy | past · do-support | I | clothes | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | present | I | nothing | about money | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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