The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 50
Prince Fickle was more in love with her than ever, and begged her once again to tell him her name.
Who acts: Fickle · What happens: be, beg, tell, name · To what, where: love, Fickle, name, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fickle), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Fickle | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Fickle | Fickle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 more | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 more | cop |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 love | case |
| 6 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 more | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 love | nmod |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 ever | case |
| 10 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 more | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 begged | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 begged | cc |
| 13 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 more | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 begged | obj |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 again | advmod |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 begged | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 tell | mark |
| 18 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 begged | advcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 tell | iobj |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 name | nmod:poss |
| 21 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tell | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 more | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Fickle Prince | love with Helena | more property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | Fickle Prince not said here | Fickle | again | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | Fickle Prince not said here | Fickle's name | Prince | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient name=Topic | |||
| 4 | name | Fickle | nom name «communication 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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