The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 41
‘Patience, patience,’ said the old woman looking at him with her slow gentle smile, ‘I can’t be hurried.
Who acts: Patience, old woman, woman · What happens: say, look, not hurry, smile · To what, where: I · 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 (Patience, old woman, woman), 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 | _ | 2 Patience | punct |
| 2 | Patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 patience | punct |
| 4 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Patience | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Patience | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Patience | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 woman | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 woman | amod |
| 10 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looking | nsubj |
| 11 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looking | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 smile | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 smile | nmod:poss |
| 16 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 smile | amod |
| 17 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 smile | amod |
| 18 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looking | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hurried | punct |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 hurried | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 hurried | nsubj |
| 22 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 hurried | aux |
| 23 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 hurried | advmod |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 hurried | aux:pass |
| 25 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 looking | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Patience and patience | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | look | gerund | the old woman | at patience; with woman's slow gentle smile | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not hurry | can · passive | I | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent | |||||
| 4 | smile | woman | nom smile «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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