The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 37
‘Since you are so thoughtful for me, and so patient about your own affairs,’ said the little monkey, ‘I will show you the way to the Golden Rock, only you must leave Mousta to wait for you here.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: be, say, show, leave, wait · To what, where: little monkey, way, you, Mousta · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 thoughtful | punct |
| 2 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 6 thoughtful | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 thoughtful | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 thoughtful | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 thoughtful | advmod |
| 6 | thoughtful | thoughtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 said | ccomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 thoughtful | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 patient | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 patient | cc |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 patient | advmod |
| 12 | patient | patient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thoughtful | conj |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 affairs | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 affairs | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 affairs | amod |
| 16 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 patient | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 thoughtful | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 thoughtful | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 monkey | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 monkey | amod |
| 22 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 show | punct |
| 24 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 show | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 show | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 show | aux |
| 27 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | parataxis |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 show | iobj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 way | det |
| 30 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 show | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 Rock | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Rock | det |
| 33 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Rock | amod |
| 34 | Rock | Rock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 show | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 leave | punct |
| 36 | only | only | ADV | _ | 39 leave | advmod |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 leave | nsubj |
| 38 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 leave | aux |
| 39 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 show | conj |
| 40 | Mousta | Mousta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 leave | obj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 wait | mark |
| 42 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 leave | advcl |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 you | case |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 wait | obl |
| 45 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 42 wait | advmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 47 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | for me; thoughtful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | you not said here | about your own affairs | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the little monkey | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent monkey=Topic | |||||
| 4 | show | future | I | the way | you | to the Golden Rock | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient way=Topic | ||
| 5 | leave | must | you | Mousta | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mousta=Theme | ||||
| 6 | wait | to-infinitive | you not said here | here | for you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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