The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 120
‘One has to pay for services, and I am not above doing my own work.’
Who acts: One, I, my · What happens: have, pay, not do, work · To what, where: own work
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 (One, I, my), 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 | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 2 | One | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 pay | mark |
| 5 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 has | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 services | case |
| 7 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pay | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 doing | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 doing | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 doing | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 doing | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 doing | advmod |
| 13 | above | above | ADP | _ | 14 doing | mark |
| 14 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 has | advcl |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 work | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 work | amod |
| 17 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 doing | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | One | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pay | to-infinitive | One not said here | for services | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for service=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not do | present · progressive | I | my own work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | work | my | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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