The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 71
‘Fine management, indeed,’ interrupted the Prince, ‘if it is to her I owe all the adventures I have met with!
Who acts: Fine management, management, I · What happens: interrupt, be, owe, meet · To what, where: Prince, adventures
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 (Fine management, management, 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 | _ | 3 management | punct |
| 2 | Fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 management | amod |
| 3 | management | management | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 interrupted | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 management | punct |
| 5 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 3 management | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 management | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 management | punct |
| 8 | interrupted | interrupt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Prince | det |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 interrupted | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 her | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 her | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 her | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 her | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 her | cop |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 interrupted | obj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 owe | nsubj |
| 19 | owe | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 her | acl:relcl |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 adventures | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 adventures | det |
| 22 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 owe | obj |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 met | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 met | aux |
| 25 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 adventures | acl:relcl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 met | obl |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 interrupted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | interrupt | past | Fine management | the Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | management | to Lolotte | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | owe | present | I | all adventures | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent adventure=Theme | ||||
| 4 | meet | present · perfect | I | all adventures not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Co-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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