The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 50

Surely a young and active gazelle like you ought to be ashamed of not being able to walk a few steps.

Who acts: young gazelle · What happens: be, not be, walk · To what, where: few steps

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 (young gazelle), 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	Surely	surely	ADV	_	12 ashamed	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 gazelle	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gazelle	amod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 active	cc
5	active	active	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 young	conj
6	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ashamed	nsubj
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 ought	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 ought	nsubj
9	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 ashamed	aux
10	to	to	PART	_	12 ashamed	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 ashamed	cop
12	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	of	of	SCONJ	_	16 able	mark
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 able	advmod
15	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 able	cop
16	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ashamed	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 walk	mark
18	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 able	xcomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 steps	det
20	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 steps	amod
21	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 walk	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 ashamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	ought	a young gazelle		ashamed, surely property	tree rules
2	not is	gerund	a young gazelle not said here		able property	tree rules
3	walk	to-infinitive	a young gazelle not said here	a few steps		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme step=Trajectory

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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