The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 25
‘Lovely Princess, irresistibly drawn by the beauty of your portrait, I come from the other end of the world to offer my services to you.
Who acts: Lovely Princess, I, your, my · What happens: draw, come, offer, portray, service · To what, where: other end, services, you
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 (Lovely Princess, I, your, my), 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 drawn | punct |
| 2 | Lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Princess | amod |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 drawn | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 drawn | punct |
| 5 | irresistibly | irresistibly | ADV | _ | 6 drawn | advmod |
| 6 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 beauty | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 beauty | det |
| 9 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drawn | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 portrait | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 portrait | nmod:poss |
| 12 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beauty | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 come | nsubj |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 drawn | conj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 end | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 end | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 end | amod |
| 19 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 world | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 end | nmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 offer | mark |
| 24 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 come | advcl |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 services | nmod:poss |
| 26 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 offer | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 you | case |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 offer | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 drawn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | participle | Lovely Princess | by the beauty of your portrait; irresistibly property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come | present | I | from the other end of the world | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from end=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | offer | to-infinitive | I not said here | my services | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent service=Theme to you=Goal | |||
| 4 | portray | your | nom portrait «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | service | my | nom service «act 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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