The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 45
He is in hiding here, and I desire that you shall speak to him, and listen to his reproaches.’
Who acts: prince, I, you · What happens: hide, desire, speak, listen · To what, where: prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, I, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hiding | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hiding | aux |
| 3 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 4 hiding | mark |
| 4 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 hiding | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 desire | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 desire | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 desire | nsubj |
| 9 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hiding | parataxis |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 speak | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 speak | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 speak | aux |
| 13 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 desire | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 speak | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 listen | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 listen | cc |
| 18 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 desire | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 reproaches | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 reproaches | nmod:poss |
| 21 | reproaches | reproach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 listen | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hiding | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 hiding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present · progressive | prince | here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | desire | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | shall | you | prince | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | listen | infinitive | I not said here | to prince's reproaches | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to reproach=Theme |
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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