The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 164
‘But,’ cried Prince Featherhead, ‘surely you cannot care for so contemptible and worthless a creature as that.’
Who acts: you · What happens: cry, not care · To what, where: Prince Featherhead
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 | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 cried | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 But | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 But | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Featherhead | compound |
| 7 | Featherhead | featherhead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 care | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 care | punct |
| 10 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 14 care | advmod |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 care | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 care | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 care | advmod |
| 14 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cried | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 contemptible | case |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 contemptible | advmod |
| 17 | contemptible | contemptible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 care | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 worthless | cc |
| 19 | worthless | worthless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 contemptible | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 creature | det |
| 21 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 contemptible | appos |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 that | case |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 creature | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Prince Featherhead | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent featherhead=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not care | can | you | for contemptible; surely property | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for contemptible=Theme |
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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