The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 170
‘He would part with his life sooner, lovely Princess,’ answered he; ‘I can assure you of that, for I am Prince Featherhead.’
Who acts: Featherhead, part, I · What happens: part, answer, assure, be · To what, where: Featherhead, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Featherhead, part, I), 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 | _ | 4 part | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 part | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 part | aux |
| 4 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 life | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 life | nmod:poss |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 part | nmod |
| 8 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 part | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Princess | punct |
| 10 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Princess | amod |
| 11 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 part | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 part | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 part | punct |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 answered | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 assure | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 assure | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 assure | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 assure | aux |
| 20 | assure | assure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 answered | ccomp |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 assure | iobj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 that | case |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 assure | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Featherhead | punct |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 Featherhead | case |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 Featherhead | nsubj |
| 27 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 Featherhead | cop |
| 28 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Featherhead | compound |
| 29 | Featherhead | featherhead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 assure | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 assure | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 assure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | part | would | Featherhead | with Featherhead's life; soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | part and lovely Princess | Featherhead | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | assure | can | I | you | of that | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient of that=Topic | |||
| 4 | is | present | I | for Prince Featherhead | tree rules |
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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