The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 48
If the Princess really has no heart, be assured that I shall not concern myself about it, since, if anybody can help her to discover one, it is myself.
Who acts: Princess, I, anybody, heart · What happens: have, assure, not concern, help, discover, be · To what, where: heart, myself, Princess, one
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, anybody, heart), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 has | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 has | advmod |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 assured | advcl |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 heart | det |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 assured | aux:pass |
| 10 | assured | assure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 concern | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 concern | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 concern | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 concern | advmod |
| 15 | concern | concern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 assured | obl |
| 16 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 15 concern | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 myself | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 help | punct |
| 20 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 25 help | mark |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 since | punct |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 help | mark |
| 23 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 25 help | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 help | aux |
| 25 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 assured | conj |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 help | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 discover | mark |
| 28 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 help | xcomp |
| 29 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 discover | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 myself | punct |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 myself | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 myself | cop |
| 33 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 help | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 assured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | the Princess | no heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 2 | assure | infinitive · passive | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S» | ||||||
| 3 | not concern | shall | I | myself | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | help | can | anybody | Princess | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | discover | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | one | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | heart | myself | 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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