The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 39
‘Since it has ended in my meeting you,’ said the Princess, ‘I cannot regret the step I have taken, and if you will let me stay with you, I shall be perfectly happy.’
Who acts: Princess, I, you, me · What happens: end, say, not regret, take, let, stay · To what, where: hospitality, meeting, step, me · 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 (Princess, I, you, me), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 5 ended | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ended | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ended | aux |
| 5 | ended | end | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 said | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 meeting | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 meeting | nmod:poss |
| 8 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ended | obl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 ended | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ended | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Princess | det |
| 14 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 regret | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 regret | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 regret | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 regret | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 regret | advmod |
| 20 | regret | regret | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 step | det |
| 22 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 regret | obj |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 taken | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 taken | aux |
| 25 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 step | acl:relcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 let | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 let | cc |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 let | mark |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 let | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 let | aux |
| 31 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 regret | conj |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 let | obj |
| 33 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 let | xcomp |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 you | case |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 stay | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 happy | punct |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 happy | nsubj |
| 38 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 happy | aux |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 happy | cop |
| 40 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 41 happy | advmod |
| 41 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 stay | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 43 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present · perfect · passive | hospitality | my meeting | you obl | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not regret | can | I | the step | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer step=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | take | present · perfect | I | the step not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme | ||||
| 5 | let a condition, not said to happen | future | you | me | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | stay | infinitive | me not said here | with you | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with you=Location | ||||
| 7 | is | shall | I | happy, perfectly property | tree rules |
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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