The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 46
‘Now you have had plenty of time to recover your wits, and you have nothing more to fear, so tell me who you are, and what this horrible Giant, with his lion and his serpent, have to do with you and for pity’s sake be quick about it.’
Who acts: you · What happens: have, recover, fear, tell, be, do · To what, where: plenty, wits, nothing, me · 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 (you), 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 | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 had | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | aux |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 tell | advcl |
| 6 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 plenty | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 recover | mark |
| 10 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 time | acl |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wits | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wits | wit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 recover | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 have | cc |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | conj |
| 17 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 have | obj |
| 18 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 nothing | amod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 fear | mark |
| 20 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 more | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 tell | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 tell | advmod |
| 23 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 tell | iobj |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 tell | ccomp |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 are | nsubj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 who | cop |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Giant | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Giant | cc |
| 30 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 33 Giant | nsubj |
| 31 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 Giant | nsubj |
| 32 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 Giant | amod |
| 33 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tell | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 lion | punct |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 lion | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 lion | nmod:poss |
| 37 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Giant | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 serpent | cc |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 serpent | nmod:poss |
| 40 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 lion | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 have | punct |
| 42 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 tell | parataxis |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 do | mark |
| 44 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 have | xcomp |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 you | case |
| 46 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 44 do | obl |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 quick | cc |
| 48 | for | for | ADP | _ | 51 sake | case |
| 49 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 sake | nmod:poss |
| 50 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 49 pity | case |
| 51 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 quick | obl |
| 52 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 53 quick | cop |
| 53 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 have | conj |
| 54 | about | about | ADP | _ | 55 it | case |
| 55 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 quick | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 tell | punct |
| 57 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · perfect | you | plenty of time | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient | |||
| 2 | recover | to-infinitive | you not said here | your wits | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present | you | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fear | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | have | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | do | to-infinitive | with you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | is | infinitive | for pity's sake; about serpent; quick property | 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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