The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 83
The Prince answered impatiently, ‘There’s not much good my telling you, Puddocky, for you couldn’t help me if I did.’
Who acts: Prince, my, you, I · What happens: answer, tell, not help, do · To what, where: you, me · 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 (Prince, my, you, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | impatiently | impatiently | ADV | _ | 3 answered | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ’s | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 ’s | punct |
| 7 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 ’s | expl |
| 8 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 help | advcl |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 good | advmod |
| 10 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 good | advmod |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ’s | xcomp |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 telling | nsubj |
| 13 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 good | advcl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 telling | iobj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Puddocky | punct |
| 16 | Puddocky | Puddocky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ’s | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 help | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 help | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 help | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 help | aux |
| 21 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 help | advmod |
| 22 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 help | obj |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 did | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 did | nsubj |
| 26 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 help | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 help | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the Prince | impatiently property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | my | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not help | could | you | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | do a condition, not said to happen | past | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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