The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 22
And what do you suppose this favour turns out to be--when I have been cajoled into promising to grant it?
Who acts: you, favour · What happens: suppose, turn out, be, cajole, promise, grant · To what, where: I, favour · 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 (you, favour), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 suppose | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 suppose | obj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 suppose | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 suppose | nsubj |
| 5 | suppose | suppose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 favour | det |
| 7 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turns | nsubj |
| 8 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 suppose | ccomp |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 turns | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 be | mark |
| 11 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 turns | xcomp |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 cajoled | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 cajoled | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 cajoled | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 cajoled | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 cajoled | aux:pass |
| 17 | cajoled | cajole | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 suppose | parataxis |
| 18 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 19 promising | mark |
| 19 | promising | promise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 cajoled | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 grant | mark |
| 21 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 promising | xcomp |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 grant | obj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 suppose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | turn out | present | this favour | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | to-infinitive | this favour not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cajole | present · perfect · passive | I | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | promise speech: promise | gerund | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | grant not said to happen | to-infinitive | favour | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=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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