The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 50
‘Don’t despair! the Porcelain Maiden is a young girl, beautiful as Venus, who dwells two hundred miles from here.
Who acts: you, Porcelain Maiden, Venus · What happens: do, be, dwell · To what, where: despair, young girl, hundred miles
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Porcelain Maiden, Venus), 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 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | n’t | n't | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 despair | det |
| 4 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Do | obj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Maiden | det |
| 7 | Porcelain | Porcelain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Maiden | compound |
| 8 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 girl | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 girl | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 girl | amod |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Do | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beautiful | punct |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 girl | amod |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 Venus | case |
| 16 | Venus | Venus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 beautiful | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dwells | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 dwells | nsubj |
| 19 | dwells | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 Venus | acl:relcl |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 hundred | compound |
| 21 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 miles | nummod |
| 22 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 dwells | obj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 here | case |
| 24 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 miles | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | n't despair | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent despair=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the Porcelain Maiden | a young girl | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dwell | present | Venus | hundred miles | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme mile=Location |
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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