The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 23
Nothing more nor less than a request that I will take back all my gifts--“since,” says my young madam, “if I have the good fortune to please you, how am I to know that it is really I, myself?
Who acts: I, young madam, fortune, my · What happens: take back, say, have, please, know, be · To what, where: request, good fortune, you, young madam · 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, young madam, fortune, my), 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 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Nothing | amod |
| 3 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 less | cc |
| 4 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 more | conj |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 request | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 request | det |
| 7 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 more | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 take | obj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 take | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 take | aux |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 request | acl:relcl |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 take | advmod |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 gifts | det:predet |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 gifts | nmod:poss |
| 15 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 take | obj |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 says | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 says | punct |
| 18 | since | since | ADV | _ | 21 says | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 since | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 since | punct |
| 21 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 gifts | conj |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 madam | nmod:poss |
| 23 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 madam | amod |
| 24 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 says | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 know | punct |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 know | punct |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 have | mark |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 have | nsubj |
| 29 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 know | advcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 fortune | det |
| 31 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 fortune | amod |
| 32 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 have | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 please | mark |
| 34 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 fortune | acl |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 please | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 have | punct |
| 37 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 41 know | advmod |
| 38 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 know | aux |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 know | nsubj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 know | mark |
| 41 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 says | ccomp |
| 42 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 46 I | mark |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 I | nsubj |
| 44 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 I | cop |
| 45 | really | really | ADV | _ | 46 I | advmod |
| 46 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 know | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 myself | punct |
| 48 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 46 I | conj |
| 49 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take back | future | I | a request | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument that=Theme gift=Destination | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | present | my young madam | since property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | my young madam = madam | the good fortune | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Patient | ||||
| 4 | please in a quote | to-infinitive | my young madam = madam not said here | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | know in a quote | present | my young madam = madam | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | fortune | my young madam = madam | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | gift | my | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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