The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 276
‘They could not increase what is perfect already, fair Princess, but still they might add something.’
Who acts: crowns · What happens: not increase, be, add · To what, where: fair Princess, something
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crowns), 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 | _ | 5 increase | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 increase | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 increase | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 increase | advmod |
| 5 | increase | increase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 perfect | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 perfect | cop |
| 8 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 increase | ccomp |
| 9 | already | already | ADV | _ | 5 increase | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Princess | punct |
| 11 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Princess | amod |
| 12 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 increase | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 add | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 add | cc |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 add | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 add | nsubj |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 add | aux |
| 18 | add | add | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 increase | conj |
| 19 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 add | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 increase | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 increase | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not increase | could | crowns = crown | fair Princess | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | perfect property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | add speech: assert | might | crowns = crown | something | still | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
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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