The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 37
Pray make her no more flattering speeches.’
Who acts: Pray · What happens: make · To what, where: flattering speeches, Fiordelisa
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pray), 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 | Pray | Pray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 make | nsubj |
| 2 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 make | obj |
| 4 | no | no | ADV | _ | 5 more | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 flattering | advmod |
| 6 | flattering | flattering | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 speeches | amod |
| 7 | speeches | speech | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 make | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 make | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | infinitive | Pray | flattering speeches | Fiordelisa | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary speech=Product |
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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