The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 34

Really, when I come to consider of it, I declare the little minx has shown more spirit and originality in the matter than one expects of a princess.’

Who acts: I, one · What happens: come, consider, declare, show, expect · To what, where: little minx

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, one), 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	Really	really	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Really	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 come	advmod
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 declare	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 consider	mark
7	consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	xcomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 consider	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 declare	nsubj
12	declare	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 minx	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 minx	amod
15	minx	minx	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shown	nsubj:pass
16	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 shown	aux
17	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 declare	parataxis
18	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 spirit	amod
19	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shown	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 originality	cc
21	originality	originality	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 spirit	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 matter	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 matter	det
24	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 spirit	nmod
25	than	than	SCONJ	_	27 expects	mark
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 expects	nsubj
27	expects	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 shown	advcl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 princess	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 princess	det
30	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 expects	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 declare	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 declare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	present	I			tree rules
2	consider	to-infinitive	I not said here		of vanity	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
3	declare speech: other	present	I			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	show	present · perfect · passive		the little minx		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient spirit=Topic
5	expect	present	one		of a princess	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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