The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 12
One is often scolded, it is true, but then one has been saved some trouble.
Who acts: confidence · What happens: scold, be, save · To what, where: One
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (confidence), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 scolded | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 scolded | aux:pass |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 scolded | advmod |
| 4 | scolded | scold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 true | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 true | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 true | cop |
| 8 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 scolded | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saved | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 saved | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 one | advmod |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 saved | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 saved | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 saved | aux:pass |
| 15 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 true | parataxis |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 trouble | det |
| 17 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saved | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 scolded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scold | present · passive | One | often property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | confidence | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | save | present · perfect · passive | one | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary trouble=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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