The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 24
But now let us return to Prince Vivien, and see what his restless spirit has brought him to.
Who acts: you, us · What happens: let, return, see, bring · To what, where: us, Prince, restless spirit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 let | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 let | advmod |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Prince | case |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 return | obl |
| 8 | Vivien | Vivien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Prince | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 see | cc |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | conj |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 brought | obj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 spirit | nmod:poss |
| 14 | restless | restless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 spirit | amod |
| 15 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 brought | aux |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 see | ccomp |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 brought | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 brought | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | return | infinitive | us not said here | Prince | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to prince=Result | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | bring | present · perfect · passive | Prince's restless spirit | tree rules |
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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