The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 73
But the Prince answered: ‘My lord and father, I would that my will were as free as my love for you is great.
Who acts: Prince, I, you, my · What happens: answer, that, be, love · To what, where: lord
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 (Prince, I, you, my), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 lord | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 lord | punct |
| 7 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lord | nmod:poss |
| 8 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 father | cc |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lord | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 that | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 that | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 that | aux |
| 14 | that | that | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 answered | conj |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 free | nmod:poss |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 free | aux |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 free | cop |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 free | advmod |
| 19 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 that | ccomp |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 love | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 love | nmod:poss |
| 22 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 that | obl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 great | case |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 great | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 great | cop |
| 26 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 that | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the Prince | My lord and father | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | that | would | I | as my love | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | future | I not said here | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | you | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | love | my | nom love «feeling 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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