The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 39
‘Who has made my lion whistle I should like to know?’
Who acts: I · What happens: make, like, know · To what, where: lion
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 4 made | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 made | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 like | advcl |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lion | nmod:poss |
| 6 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 7 | whistle | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 like | aux |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 like | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 like | aux |
| 10 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 know | mark |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 like | xcomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 like | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · perfect | my lion | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Product | |||||
| 2 | like | should · present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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