The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 187
But we cannot stay here,’ she added; ‘what are we to do?’
Who acts: we, love · What happens: not stay, add, be
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 (we, love), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 stay | cc |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 stay | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 stay | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 stay | advmod |
| 5 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 stay | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 added | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 10 added | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 added | nsubj |
| 10 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stay | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 do | obj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | cop |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stay | conj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stay | can | we | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past | love | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | we | do property | 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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