The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 33
I’ll just cure her vanity by making her love someone better than herself.
Who acts: I · What happens: cure, make · To what, where: vanity, someone
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), 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 | 4 cure | nsubj |
| 2 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 cure | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 cure | advmod |
| 4 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 vanity | nmod:poss |
| 6 | vanity | vanity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cure | obj |
| 7 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 making | mark |
| 8 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 cure | advcl |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 someone | nmod:poss |
| 10 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 someone | compound |
| 11 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 making | obj |
| 12 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 making | xcomp |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 herself | case |
| 14 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 better | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cure | future | I | Fairy's vanity | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer vanity=Source | ||||
| 2 | make | gerund | I not said here | someone | good property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset someone=Product |
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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