The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 96
‘Now, don’t be so foolish, my dear Prince; but keep up your spirits, for there is no need to despair.
Who acts: you, need · What happens: be, keep up, despair · To what, where: spirits
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, need), 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 | _ | 8 foolish | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 foolish | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 foolish | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 do | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 foolish | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 foolish | advmod |
| 8 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Prince | punct |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 Prince | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Prince | amod |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 foolish | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 keep | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 keep | cc |
| 15 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 foolish | parataxis |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 keep | compound:prt |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 spirits | nmod:poss |
| 18 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 keep | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 is | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 is | case |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 is | expl |
| 22 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 keep | conj |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 need | det |
| 24 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 is | nsubj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 despair | mark |
| 26 | despair | despair | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 need | acl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 foolish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative · do-support | you not said here | now | my dear Prince obl; foolish property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | keep up | infinitive | your spirits | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be | present | no need | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | despair | to-infinitive | no need not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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