The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 21

‘Pray laugh if it pleases your Majesty, I am glad that it is in my power to afford you any amusement; but I am not a plaything for these gentlemen, and I must beg them to dismiss any ideas of that kind from their minds at once,’ and with that he turned upon the one who had laughed the loudest and proudly challenged him to a single combat.

Who acts: laugh, I, Mannikin, one, ideas · What happens: pray, please, be, afford, not be, beg · To what, where: laugh, Majesty, power, you, plaything, gentlemen

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (laugh, I, Mannikin, one), 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	_	2 Pray	punct
2	Pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 pleases	advcl
3	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Pray	obj
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 pleases	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pleases	nsubj
6	pleases	please	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 Majesty	nmod:poss
8	Majesty	majesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pleases	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 glad	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 glad	nsubj
11	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 glad	cop
12	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pleases	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 power	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 power	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 power	cop
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 power	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 power	nmod:poss
18	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 glad	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 afford	mark
20	afford	afford	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 power	acl
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 afford	obj
22	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	23 amusement	det
23	amusement	amusement	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 afford	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 plaything	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 plaything	cc
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 plaything	nsubj
27	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 plaything	cop
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 plaything	advmod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 plaything	det
30	plaything	plaything	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pleases	obl
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 gentlemen	case
32	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	33 gentlemen	det
33	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 plaything	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 beg	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 beg	cc
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 beg	nsubj
37	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 beg	aux
38	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 plaything	conj
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 beg	obj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 dismiss	mark
41	dismiss	dismiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 beg	xcomp
42	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	43 ideas	det
43	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 dismiss	obj
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 kind	case
45	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	46 kind	det
46	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 ideas	nmod
47	from	from	ADP	_	49 minds	case
48	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 minds	nmod:poss
49	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 dismiss	obl
50	at	at	ADP	_	51 once	case
51	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	41 dismiss	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 plaything	punct
53	’	'	PUNCT	_	30 plaything	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 turned	cc
55	with	with	SCONJ	_	58 turned	mark
56	that	that	SCONJ	_	58 turned	mark
57	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 turned	nsubj
58	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 plaything	conj
59	upon	upon	ADP	_	61 one	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 one	det
61	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 turned	obl
62	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	64 laughed	nsubj
63	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 laughed	aux
64	laughed	laugh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	61 one	acl:relcl
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 loudest	det
66	loudest	loud	ADJ	Degree=Sup	64 laughed	parataxis
67	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 challenged	cc
68	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	69 challenged	advmod
69	challenged	challenge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 laughed	conj
70	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 challenged	obj
71	to	to	ADP	_	74 combat	case
72	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	74 combat	det
73	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	74 combat	amod
74	combat	combat	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 challenged	obl
75	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pleases	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	pray	infinitive	laugh not said here	laugh				tree rules
2	please	present	laugh	your Majesty				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus majesty=Experiencer
3	is	present	I				glad property	tree rules
4	is	present	laugh			my power		tree rules
5	afford	to-infinitive	I not said here	you				tree rules
6	not is a	present	I	a plaything			for this gentlemen	tree rules
7	beg speech: request	must	I		gentlemen = gentleman			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
8	dismiss not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	any ideas of that kind		ideas's minds		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent idea=Theme from mind=Source
9	turn	past	Mannikin				upon the one	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme upon one=Trajectory
10	laugh	past · perfect	the one					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	challenge	past	the one not said here	Mannikin			to a single combat; proudly property	tree rules
12	mind		ideas = idea					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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