The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 85
‘Now, my Princess, you are free; where will it please you that we shall hold our wedding?’
Who acts: Princess, we, our · What happens: be, hold, wed · To what, where: wedding
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 (Princess, we, our), 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 | _ | 9 free | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 Princess | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Princess | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Princess | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 free | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Princess | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 free | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 free | cop |
| 9 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 you | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 you | advmod |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 you | aux |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 you | nsubj |
| 14 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 15 you | discourse |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 free | advcl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 hold | mark |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 hold | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 hold | aux |
| 19 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 free | advcl |
| 20 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 wedding | nmod:poss |
| 21 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hold | obj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 free | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 free | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | my Princess | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold | shall | we | our wedding | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedding=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wed | our | nom wedding «event 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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