The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 76
‘Far be it from me,’ replied the Prince, ‘to banish the beautiful picture of my love from my heart.
Who acts: my · What happens: be, reply, banish, love · To what, where: love, Prince, beautiful picture, heart
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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 2 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 it | advmod |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 it | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 replied | obl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 it | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 it | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 it | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Prince | det |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 banish | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 banish | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 banish | mark |
| 15 | banish | banish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 replied | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 picture | det |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 picture | amod |
| 18 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 banish | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 love | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 love | nmod:poss |
| 21 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 picture | nmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 heart | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 heart | nmod:poss |
| 24 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 banish | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | infinitive | love | from me; far property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Prince | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prince=Topic | |||||
| 3 | banish | to-infinitive | the beautiful picture of my love | my heart | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent picture=Theme from heart=Source | ||||
| 4 | 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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