The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 121

‘Madam, I will serve you for nothing,’ said the poor Princess, whose spirits were sinking lower and lower.

Who acts: I, poor Princess, spirits · What happens: serve, say, sink · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

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, poor Princess, spirits), 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	_	6 serve	punct
2	Madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 serve	vocative
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Madam	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 serve	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 serve	aux
6	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 serve	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 nothing	case
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 serve	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 serve	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Princess	det
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Princess	amod
15	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sinking	punct
17	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	18 spirits	nmod:poss
18	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sinking	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sinking	aux
20	sinking	sink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 Princess	acl:relcl
21	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 sinking	xcomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 lower	cc
23	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 lower	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	serve	future	I	you	for nothing; Madam vocative	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Theme for nothing=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	the poor Princess			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sink	past · progressive	spirits		low property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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