The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 142
For instance, look at my house!
Who acts: you · What happens: look · To what, where: house
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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 instance | case |
| 2 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 look | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 instance | punct |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 house | nmod:poss |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 look | obl |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | my house | for instance | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for instance=Theme at house=Location |
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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