The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 280
‘You will see, fair Princess, when you taste them.
Who acts: You · What happens: see, taste · To what, where: fair Princess, crowns
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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Princess | punct |
| 6 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Princess | amod |
| 7 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 taste | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 taste | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 taste | nsubj |
| 11 | taste | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | parataxis |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 taste | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | future | You | fair Princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | taste | present | you | crowns = crown | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme they=Attribute |
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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