The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 40
‘I have,’ replied Prince Vivien boldly, ‘but I can answer for it that he will not do it again!’
Who acts: I, Prince · What happens: have, reply, answer, not do · To what, where: lion · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Prince), 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 | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 replied | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | Vivien | Vivien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Prince | flat |
| 9 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 replied | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 answer | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 answer | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 answer | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 answer | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 answer | aux |
| 15 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 replied | parataxis |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 answer | obl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 do | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 do | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 do | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 do | advmod |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 answer | advcl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 do | obj |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 do | advmod |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 answer | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Prince | boldly property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | can | I | for lion | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not do | future | Prince | lion | again | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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