The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 75
When Grannonia heard these words, and saw how deeply rooted the Prince’s love for her was, she felt very happy, and blushing rosy red, she said: ‘But should I get the other lady to give up her rights, would you then consent to marry me?’
Who acts: Grannonia, I, you, Prince · What happens: hear, see, be, feel, blush, say · To what, where: words, other lady, rights, me · 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 (Grannonia, I, you, Prince), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | Grannonia | Grannonia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 said | advcl |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 words | det |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 rooted | advmod |
| 10 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 11 rooted | advmod |
| 11 | rooted | root | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Prince | det |
| 13 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 love | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Prince | case |
| 15 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rooted | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 rooted | obl |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 rooted | cop |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 felt | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 felt | nsubj |
| 21 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 happy | advmod |
| 23 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 felt | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 blushing | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 blushing | cc |
| 26 | blushing | blush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 heard | advcl |
| 27 | rosy | rosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 red | amod |
| 28 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 blushing | xcomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 said | nsubj |
| 31 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 32 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 get | punct |
| 33 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 37 get | punct |
| 34 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 get | cc |
| 35 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 get | aux |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 get | nsubj |
| 37 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 said | ccomp |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 lady | det |
| 39 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 lady | amod |
| 40 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 get | obj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 give | mark |
| 42 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 get | advcl |
| 43 | up | up | ADP | _ | 42 give | compound:prt |
| 44 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 rights | nmod:poss |
| 45 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 give | obj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 consent | punct |
| 47 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 consent | aux |
| 48 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 50 consent | nsubj |
| 49 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 50 consent | advmod |
| 50 | consent | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 get | conj |
| 51 | to | to | PART | _ | 52 marry | mark |
| 52 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 consent | xcomp |
| 53 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 52 marry | obj |
| 54 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 37 get | punct |
| 55 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 37 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Grannonia | this words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Grannonia not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is | past | for Grannonia; deeply, root property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | feel | past | Grannonia | happy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | blush | gerund | Grannonia not said here | red property | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | Grannonia | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | get | should | I | the other lady | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lady=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | give up | to-infinitive | I not said here | Grannonia's rights | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Source | ||||
| 9 | consent | would | you | then | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 10 | marry | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 11 | love | the Prince | 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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