The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 91
‘Here comes one of these fine beggars who are too idle to do anything but run about the country!’
Who acts: fine beggars · What happens: come, be, do, run · To what, where: one, anything
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 (fine beggars), 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 | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 comes | advmod |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 comes | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 beggars | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 beggars | det |
| 7 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 beggars | amod |
| 8 | beggars | beggar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 idle | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 idle | cop |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 idle | advmod |
| 12 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 beggars | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 idle | xcomp |
| 15 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 do | obj |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 run | cc |
| 17 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 idle | conj |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 country | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 country | det |
| 20 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 run | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | one of this fine beggars | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | this fine beggars | idle property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | this fine beggars not said here | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | run | present | this fine beggars not said here | about the country | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about country=Trajectory |
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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