The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 60
‘Alas! sire, do not let us make bad worse; no doubt this is a Fairy!’
Who acts: you, us, this, doubt · What happens: not let, make, doubt, be · To what, where: us, Fairy
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, us, this, doubt), 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 | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 8 let | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 sire | punct |
| 4 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Alas | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 let | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 let | advmod |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 11 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 make | xcomp |
| 12 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 bad | parataxis |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 Fairy | punct |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 doubt | det |
| 15 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Fairy | nsubj |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 doubt | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 Fairy | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 Fairy | det |
| 19 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 let | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let | imperative · do-support | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | us not said here | bad property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | doubt | this | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | no doubt | a Fairy | 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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