The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 134
‘That dress of mine certainly suits you to a marvel; be sure you take great care of it.’
Who acts: dress, you, care · What happens: suit, be, take, care · To what, where: you, great care
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 (dress, you, care), 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 | _ | 7 suits | punct |
| 2 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 dress | det |
| 3 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 suits | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 mine | case |
| 5 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 dress | nmod |
| 6 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 7 suits | advmod |
| 7 | suits | suit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 suits | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 marvel | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 marvel | det |
| 11 | marvel | marvel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 suits | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 sure | punct |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sure | cop |
| 14 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 suits | advcl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 take | nsubj |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sure | ccomp |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 care | amod |
| 18 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 care | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 suits | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 suits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suit | present | that dress of mine | you | to a marvel; certainly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | infinitive | that dress of mine not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | present | you | great care of care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 4 | care | care | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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