The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 55
‘Oh! if it’s long, I can’t listen,’ cried the Prince.
Who acts: pleasure, I · What happens: be, not listen, cry · To what, where: Prince · 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 (pleasure, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 listen | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 12 listen | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 long | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 long | nsubj |
| 6 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 long | cop |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 Oh | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 listen | nsubj |
| 10 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 listen | aux |
| 11 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 listen | advmod |
| 12 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 cried | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 listen | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 listen | punct |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Prince | det |
| 17 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 cried | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | pleasure | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not listen | can | I | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the Prince | 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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