The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 58
‘Prince Milan and Princess Hyacinthia have just gone on this minute; they stopped for a few minutes in the church to say their prayers, and bade me light this wax candle for you, and give you their love.’
Who acts: Prince Milan, pass · What happens: go, stop, say, light, give, pray · To what, where: prayers, bade, love, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince Milan, pass), 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 | _ | 3 Milan | punct |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Milan | compound |
| 3 | Milan | Milan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 gone | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Princess | cc |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Milan | conj |
| 6 | Hyacinthia | Hyacinthia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Princess | flat |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 gone | aux |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 gone | advmod |
| 9 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 minute | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 minute | det |
| 12 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gone | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 stopped | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stopped | nsubj |
| 15 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gone | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 minutes | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 minutes | det |
| 18 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 minutes | amod |
| 19 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 stopped | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 church | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 church | det |
| 22 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 minutes | nmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 say | mark |
| 24 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 stopped | advcl |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 prayers | nmod:poss |
| 26 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 say | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 light | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 light | cc |
| 29 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 light | obl |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 bade | obj |
| 31 | light | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 gone | parataxis |
| 32 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 candle | det |
| 33 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 candle | compound |
| 34 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 light | obj |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 you | case |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 light | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 give | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 give | cc |
| 39 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 light | conj |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 give | iobj |
| 41 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 love | nmod:poss |
| 42 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 give | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gone | punct |
| 44 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · perfect | Prince Milan and Princess | minute | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | pass | minute | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | pass not said here | pass's prayers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic | ||||
| 4 | light | present | bade | for you | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent candle=Product for you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | give | infinitive | pass's love | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient love=Theme | ||||
| 6 | pray | pass | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | love | pass | 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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