The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 64
To which she said that she would wish them to be as insensible to the folly called ‘love’ as she was herself!
Who acts: Princess, folly · What happens: say, wish, be, call · To what, where: bounds, love, Princess · 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, folly), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 which | case |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 said | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 wish | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 wish | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 wish | aux |
| 8 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 wish | iobj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 insensible | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 insensible | cop |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 insensible | case |
| 13 | insensible | insensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wish | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 folly | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 folly | det |
| 16 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 insensible | obl |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 folly | acl |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 love | punct |
| 19 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 called | xcomp |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 love | punct |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 herself | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 herself | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 herself | cop |
| 24 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 called | obl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Princess | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to which=Experiencer clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | wish | would | Princess | bounds = bound | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | to the folly; insensible property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | call | participle | the folly not said here | love | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | Princess | Princess | 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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