The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 27
Tomorrow I am to fight this ugly, overgrown Prince, and I beg you to honour the combat with your presence, and prove to the world that there is nothing in a name, and that you deign to accept Mannikin as your knight.’
Who acts: I, nothing, you · What happens: fight, beg, honour, prove, be, deign · To what, where: you, combat, Mannikin
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 (I, nothing, you), 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 | Tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fight | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 fight | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fight | aux |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 fight | mark |
| 5 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 Prince | nsubj |
| 7 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Prince | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Prince | punct |
| 9 | overgrown | overgrown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Prince | amod |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fight | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beg | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 beg | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 beg | nsubj |
| 14 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fight | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 beg | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 honour | mark |
| 17 | honour | honour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 beg | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 combat | det |
| 19 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 honour | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 presence | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 presence | nmod:poss |
| 22 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 honour | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 prove | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 prove | cc |
| 25 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 honour | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 world | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 world | det |
| 28 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 prove | obl |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 is | mark |
| 30 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 31 is | expl |
| 31 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 prove | advcl |
| 32 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 31 is | nsubj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 name | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 name | det |
| 35 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 nothing | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 deign | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 deign | cc |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 deign | mark |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 deign | nsubj |
| 40 | deign | deign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 beg | conj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 accept | mark |
| 42 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 deign | xcomp |
| 43 | Mannikin | Mannikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 accept | obj |
| 44 | as | as | ADP | _ | 46 knight | case |
| 45 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 knight | nmod:poss |
| 46 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 accept | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fight | punct |
| 48 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 fight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | present | I | tomorrow | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | present | I | you | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | honour not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | the combat | with your presence | tree rules | |||
| 4 | prove | infinitive | I not said here | to the world | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to world=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | be | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | deign | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | accept | to-infinitive | you not said here | Mannikin | as your knight | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent mannikin=Theme as knight=Attribute |
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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