The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 176

‘I declare,’ said she, ‘that it’s perfectly true: wherever there is a girl you may be sure that a young man will appear before long!

Who acts: I, house, length, girl, young man · What happens: declare, say, be, appear · 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 (I, house, length, girl), 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	_	3 declare	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 declare	nsubj
3	declare	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 declare	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 declare	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 true	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 true	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 true	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 true	nsubj
12	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 true	cop
13	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	14 true	advmod
14	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 sure	advcl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 is	punct
16	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	18 is	advmod
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 is	expl
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 sure	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 girl	det
20	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sure	nsubj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 sure	nsubj
22	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 sure	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 sure	cop
24	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 appear	mark
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 man	det
27	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 man	amod
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 appear	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 appear	aux
30	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sure	ccomp
31	before	before	ADV	_	30 appear	advmod
32	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 appear	advmod
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	present	I		vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	house		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	present	length	perfectly, true property	tree rules
4	is	may · present	a girl	sure property	tree rules
5	appear	future	a young man	before, long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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