The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 21
‘Prince, you have constantly refilled all the gifts which, in my gratitude for your invaluable services, I have offered to you, but I wish the Princess to present you with her cloak of marten’s fur, and that I hope you will not reject!’
Who acts: I, you, your · What happens: refill, offer, wish, present, hope, not reject · To what, where: Prince, I, you, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, your), 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 | _ | 2 Prince | punct |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 refilled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Prince | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 refilled | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 refilled | aux |
| 6 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | 7 refilled | advmod |
| 7 | refilled | refill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 gifts | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 gifts | det |
| 10 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 refilled | obj |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 gifts | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 which | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 gratitude | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 gratitude | nmod:poss |
| 15 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 which | nmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 services | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 services | nmod:poss |
| 18 | invaluable | invaluable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 services | amod |
| 19 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 gratitude | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 offered | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 offered | aux |
| 23 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 gratitude | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 offered | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 wish | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 wish | cc |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 wish | nsubj |
| 29 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 offered | parataxis |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Princess | det |
| 31 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wish | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 present | mark |
| 33 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 wish | ccomp |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 present | obj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 cloak | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 37 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 present | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 fur | case |
| 39 | marten | marten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 fur | nmod:poss |
| 40 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 39 marten | case |
| 41 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 cloak | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 hope | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 hope | cc |
| 44 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 46 hope | mark |
| 45 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 hope | nsubj |
| 46 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 wish | conj |
| 47 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 50 reject | nsubj |
| 48 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 reject | aux |
| 49 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 50 reject | advmod |
| 50 | reject | reject | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 hope | ccomp |
| 51 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 50 reject | punct |
| 52 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 50 reject | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refill | present · perfect · passive | Prince | constantly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | offer | present · perfect · passive | I | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to you=Goal | ||||
| 3 | wish | present | I | the Princess | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | present not said to happen | to-infinitive | you | with Princess's cloak of marten's fur | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Recipient with cloak=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hope | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | not reject | future | you | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | service | your | 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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