The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 55

I ride a snail!’ cried the Prince; ‘you are laughing at me, and beside we should not get there for a year.’

Who acts: I, you, we · What happens: ride, cry, laugh, not get · To what, where: snail, Prince

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, you, we), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 ride	nsubj
2	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 snail	det
4	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ride	obj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 ride	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ride	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Prince	det
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 laughing	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 laughing	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 laughing	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 laughing	aux
14	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 cried	advcl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 me	case
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 laughing	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 get	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 get	cc
19	beside	beside	ADP	_	23 get	mark
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 get	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 get	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 get	advmod
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ride	conj
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 get	advmod
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 year	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 year	det
27	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ride	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 ride	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	present	I	a snail				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snail=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	I not said here	the Prince				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Topic
3	laugh	present · progressive	you				at me	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not get	should	we		there	year		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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