The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 99
I must search her, and see if it is not so,’ she added, hobbling towards Celandine with the aid of her stick.
Who acts: I, head, lady · What happens: search, see, not be, add, hobble · To what, where: lady
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, head, lady), 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 | 3 search | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 search | aux |
| 3 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 search | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 see | cc |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 search | conj |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 so | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 so | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 so | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 so | advmod |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 see | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 added | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | SCONJ | _ | 16 added | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 added | nsubj |
| 16 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 search | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hobbling | punct |
| 18 | hobbling | hobble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 added | advcl |
| 19 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 20 Celandine | case |
| 20 | Celandine | Celandine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 hobbling | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 aid | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 aid | det |
| 23 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hobbling | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 stick | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 stick | nmod:poss |
| 26 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 aid | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 search | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | must | I | lady | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Location | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | not is a condition, not said to happen | present | head | so property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | add speech: assert | past | lady | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | hobble | gerund | lady not said here | towards Celandine; with the aid of lady's stick | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards celandine=Destination |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/99/