The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 127
‘Oh! for pity’s sake, do what you please with my clothes,’ cried poor Celandine miserably.
Who acts: you · What happens: do, please, cry · To what, where: poor Celandine
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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 do | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 sake | case |
| 5 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sake | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 pity | case |
| 7 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Oh | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 cried | parataxis |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 do | obj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 please | nsubj |
| 12 | please | please | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 clothes | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 12 please | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 18 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Celandine | amod |
| 20 | Celandine | Celandine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 cried | obj |
| 21 | miserably | miserably | ADV | _ | 18 cried | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||||
| 2 | please | present | you | with my clothes | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | poor Celandine | miserably property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent celandine=Topic |
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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