The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 122
‘I will do anything you please; all I wish is to live quietly in this lonely spot.’
Who acts: I, all · What happens: do, wish, be · To what, where: anything, lonely spot
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, all), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 anything | nsubj |
| 7 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 4 do | discourse |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 live | punct |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 live | nsubj:outer |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 wish | nsubj |
| 11 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 all | acl:relcl |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 live | cop |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 live | mark |
| 14 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 do | parataxis |
| 15 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 14 live | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 spot | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 spot | det |
| 18 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 spot | amod |
| 19 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 live | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | future | I | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is | present | all | this lonely spot | live, quietly property | tree rules |
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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