The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 21
And then the King cried gaily: ‘Pray do whatever you like with me, as long as you deliver me from this ugly scold!’
Who acts: King, Pray, you · What happens: cry, do, like, deliver · To what, where: whatever, me, ugly scold
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (King, Pray, you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cried | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 cried | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | gaily | gaily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cried | xcomp |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 9 | Pray | Pray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 do | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cried | parataxis |
| 11 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 do | obj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 like | nsubj |
| 13 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 whatever | acl:relcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 like | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 long | punct |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 long | advmod |
| 18 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 cried | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 deliver | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 deliver | nsubj |
| 21 | deliver | deliver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 long | advcl |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 deliver | obj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 scold | case |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 scold | det |
| 25 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 scold | amod |
| 26 | scold | scold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 deliver | obl |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the King | then | gaily, long property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | do | present | Pray | whatever | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | like | present | you | with me | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | deliver | present | you | me | this ugly scold | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme from scold=Initial_Location |
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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