The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 109

Just fancy my not recognising the beautiful Hyacinthia!

Who acts: you, my · What happens: fancy, not recognise · To what, where: beautiful Hyacinthia

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Just	just	ADV	_	2 fancy	advmod
2	fancy	fancy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 recognising	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 recognising	advmod
5	recognising	recognise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 fancy	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Hyacinthia	det
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Hyacinthia	amod
8	Hyacinthia	Hyacinthia	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 recognising	obj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 fancy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fancy	imperative	you not said here						vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	not recognise	gerund	my	the beautiful Hyacinthia					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hyacinthia=Stimulus

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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