The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 56
‘Oh! well then don’t do it,’ replied the gazelle, ‘I am quite willing to stay here.
Who acts: I · What happens: not do, reply, be, stay · To what, where: snail, gazelle · 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), 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 | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 do | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 do | advmod |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 do | advmod |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 7 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 do | advmod |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 replied | ccomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 do | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 gazelle | det |
| 14 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 willing | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 willing | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 willing | nsubj |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 willing | cop |
| 19 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 20 willing | advmod |
| 20 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 replied | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 stay | mark |
| 22 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 willing | xcomp |
| 23 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 stay | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | infinitive · do-support | snail | then | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the gazelle | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | present | I | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stay | to-infinitive | I not said here | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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