The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 141
‘I am very much pleased with you, and if you go on as you have begun, we shall do very well, and I can teach you many useful things which people don’t generally know.
Who acts: I, you, we, people · What happens: be, go on, begin, do, teach, not know · To what, where: many useful things, you
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, you, we, people), 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 pleased | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pleased | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 pleased | advmod |
| 6 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 pleased | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 do | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 do | cc |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 go | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 go | nsubj |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 do | advcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADV | _ | 13 go | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 begun | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 begun | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 begun | aux |
| 18 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 go | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 do | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 do | aux |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pleased | conj |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 well | advmod |
| 24 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 do | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 teach | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 teach | cc |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 teach | nsubj |
| 28 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 teach | aux |
| 29 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 pleased | conj |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 teach | iobj |
| 31 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 things | amod |
| 32 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 things | amod |
| 33 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 teach | obj |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 do | obj |
| 35 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 do | nsubj |
| 36 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 things | acl:relcl |
| 37 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 know | advmod |
| 38 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 39 know | advmod |
| 39 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 do | advcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | with you; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go on a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | begin | present · perfect | you | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | do | shall | we | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | teach speech: other | can | I | many useful things | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient thing=Topic | |||
| 6 | do | present | people | many useful things | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | not know | present | people not said here | generally property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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