The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 119
‘Now, you genius,’ said the Magician, ‘look at these beauties three times, and then tell us which is the Princess Hyacinthia.’
Who acts: you, genius · What happens: genius, say, look, tell, be · To what, where: us, Princess Hyacinthia · Speech: someone speaks here
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, genius), 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 | _ | 5 genius | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 genius | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 genius | nsubj |
| 5 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 genius | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 genius | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Magician | det |
| 10 | Magician | Magician | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 look | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 look | punct |
| 13 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 beauties | case |
| 15 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 beauties | det |
| 16 | beauties | beauty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 look | obl |
| 17 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 times | nummod |
| 18 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 look | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tell | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 tell | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 tell | advmod |
| 22 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | parataxis |
| 23 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 tell | iobj |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 Hyacinthia | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 Hyacinthia | cop |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Hyacinthia | det |
| 27 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Hyacinthia | compound |
| 28 | Hyacinthia | Hyacinthia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 tell | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 tell | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | genius | you | now | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | genius | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | look | infinitive | genius not said here | time | at this beauties | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at beauty=Theme | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | us | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | the Princess Hyacinthia | 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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