The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 30

‘Alas!’ said she, ‘I favour none of these foolish people, who weary me with their sentiment and their folly.

Who acts: Princess, I, foolish people · What happens: say, favour, weary · To what, where: none, me · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Princess, I, foolish people), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 favour	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 favour	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 favour	nsubj
10	favour	favour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
11	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	10 favour	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 people	case
13	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 people	det
14	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 people	amod
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 none	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 weary	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 weary	nsubj
18	weary	weary	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 people	acl:relcl
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 weary	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 sentiment	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 sentiment	nmod:poss
22	sentiment	sentiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 weary	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 folly	cc
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 folly	nmod:poss
25	folly	folly	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sentiment	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Princess			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	favour	present	I	none		tree rules
3	weary	past	this foolish people	me	with people's sentiment and sentiment's folly	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer

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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