The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 57
‘But, but,’ said the Prince, in his most impatient tone, ‘old people should not be so long-winded!
Who acts: Prince, old people · What happens: say, not be, intonate · To what, where: impatient tone · 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 (Prince, old people), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 but | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | 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 | 9 Prince | det |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tone | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 tone | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 tone | nmod:poss |
| 13 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 14 impatient | advmod |
| 14 | impatient | impatient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tone | amod |
| 15 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 winded | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 winded | punct |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 people | amod |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 winded | nsubj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 winded | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 winded | advmod |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 winded | cop |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 winded | advmod |
| 24 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 winded | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 long | punct |
| 26 | winded | winded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tone | conj |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Prince | Prince's impatient tone | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in tone=Manner | ||||
| 2 | not is | should | old people | winded property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | intonate | Prince | nom tone «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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