The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 51

The further off this castle is the faster we ought to walk, but as you don’t appear to enjoy that, I will promise that we will go gently, and we can talk by the way.’

Who acts: further castle, we, you, I · What happens: be, walk, not appear, enjoy, promise, go · To what, where: that · 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 (further castle, we, you, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 castle	det
2	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 castle	amod
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 further	compound:prt
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 castle	det
5	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 faster	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 faster	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 faster	det
8	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 walk	nsubj
10	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 walk	aux
11	to	to	PART	_	12 walk	mark
12	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 faster	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 promise	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 promise	cc
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 appear	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 appear	nsubj
17	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 appear	aux
18	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 appear	advmod
19	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 promise	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 enjoy	mark
21	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 appear	xcomp
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 enjoy	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 appear	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 promise	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 promise	aux
26	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 walk	conj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 go	mark
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 go	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 go	aux
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 promise	ccomp
31	gently	gently	ADV	_	30 go	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 talk	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 talk	cc
34	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 talk	nsubj
35	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 talk	aux
36	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 walk	conj
37	by	by	ADP	_	39 way	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 way	det
39	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 talk	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 faster	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 faster	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the further castle		fast property	tree rules
2	walk	ought	we			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not appear	present · do-support	you			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	enjoy	to-infinitive	you not said here	that		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
5	promise speech: promise	future	I			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	go	future	we		gently property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	talk	can	we		by the way	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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