The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 29
‘Do with me what you like, my lord and father, for your will is my law,’ answered Grannonia.
Who acts: you · What happens: do, like, be, answer · To what, where: lord, Grannonia · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. 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 | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 answered | ccomp |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Do | obl |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 Do | obj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 like | nsubj |
| 7 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lord | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 lord | nmod:poss |
| 10 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Do | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 father | cc |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lord | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 law | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 law | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 law | nmod:poss |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 law | aux |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 law | cop |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 law | nmod:poss |
| 19 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Do | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 22 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | Grannonia | Grannonia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 answered | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | infinitive | my lord and father | with me | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | like | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is | future | for your law | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | Grannonia | tree rules |
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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