The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 39
‘If you will only have patience I am just going out into the garden to gather some peas: we will shell them at our leisure, then I will light a fire and cook them, and when they are thoroughly done, we can enjoy them peaceably; there is no hurry.’
Who acts: you, I, we, hurry · What happens: have, go out, gather, shell, light, cook · To what, where: patience, garden, peas, leisure, fire
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, I, we, hurry), 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 | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | aux |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 have | advmod |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 53 is | ccomp |
| 7 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 going | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 going | aux |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 going | advmod |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 patience | acl:relcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 11 going | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 garden | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 garden | det |
| 15 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 going | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 gather | mark |
| 17 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 going | advcl |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 peas | det |
| 19 | peas | pea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 gather | obj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 shell | punct |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 shell | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 shell | aux |
| 23 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obl |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 shell | nmod |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 leisure | case |
| 26 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 leisure | nmod:poss |
| 27 | leisure | leisure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shell | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 light | punct |
| 29 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 light | advmod |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 light | nsubj |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 light | aux |
| 32 | light | light | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 have | parataxis |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 fire | det |
| 34 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 light | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 cook | cc |
| 36 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 light | conj |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 cook | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 enjoy | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 enjoy | cc |
| 40 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 44 done | advmod |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 done | nsubj |
| 42 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 done | aux:pass |
| 43 | thoroughly | thoroughly | ADV | _ | 44 done | advmod |
| 44 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 enjoy | advcl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 done | punct |
| 46 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 enjoy | nsubj |
| 47 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 enjoy | aux |
| 48 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 light | conj |
| 49 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 enjoy | obj |
| 50 | peaceably | peaceably | ADV | _ | 48 enjoy | advmod |
| 51 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 52 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 53 is | expl |
| 53 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 54 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 55 hurry | det |
| 55 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 is | nsubj |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 53 is | punct |
| 57 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 53 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen | future | you | patience | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go out | present · progressive | I | patience not said here | the garden | out property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | gather | to-infinitive | I not said here | some peas | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pea=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shell | future | we | peas = pea | our leisure | tree rules | |||
| 5 | light | future | I | a fire | then | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | |||
| 6 | cook | infinitive | I not said here | peas = pea | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 7 | do | present · passive | peas = pea | thoroughly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | enjoy | can | we | peas = pea | peaceably property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||
| 9 | be | present | no hurry | there | 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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