The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 26
I did all I could,’ continued Saradine, ‘to make her think better of it, but in vain; so after going through the usual ceremony for taking back my gifts, I’m come to you for a little peace and quietness.
Who acts: I, all, Saradine, usual ceremony, my · What happens: do, continue, make, think, go, take back · To what, where: Saradine, usual ceremony, gifts, you
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, all, Saradine, usual ceremony), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 continued | nsubj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 could | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 all | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 all | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 all | punct |
| 8 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 9 | Saradine | Saradine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 continued | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 make | mark |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 continued | parataxis |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 make | obj |
| 15 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 make | xcomp |
| 16 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 think | ccomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 better | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 vain | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 vain | cc |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 vain | case |
| 22 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 make | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 come | punct |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 come | advmod |
| 25 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 26 going | mark |
| 26 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 come | advcl |
| 27 | through | through | ADP | _ | 30 ceremony | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 ceremony | det |
| 29 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 ceremony | amod |
| 30 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 going | obl |
| 31 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 32 taking | mark |
| 32 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 ceremony | acl |
| 33 | back | back | ADV | _ | 32 taking | advmod |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 gifts | nmod:poss |
| 35 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 taking | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 going | punct |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 come | nsubj |
| 38 | ’m | 'm | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 come | aux |
| 39 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 did | conj |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 you | case |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 come | obl |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 peace | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 peace | det |
| 44 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 peace | amod |
| 45 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 come | obl |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 quietness | cc |
| 47 | quietness | quietness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 peace | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | continue | past | all | Saradine | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent saradine=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | Saradine | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | infinitive | Saradine not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | go | gerund | I not said here | the usual ceremony | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through ceremony=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | take back | gerund | the usual ceremony not said here | my gifts | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | ||||
| 7 | come | I | you | for a little peace and quietness | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location | ||||
| 8 | 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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