The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 16
Continue to make the best of your farm, if you wish to get back to your kingdom, and also take care of this little Princess for me, and teach her to be useful, that when I come I may find her cured of her faults.
Who acts: you, I, Princess · What happens: continue, make, wish, get back, take, teach · To what, where: best, care, Princess, that
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 (you, I, Princess), 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 | Continue | continue | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 make | mark |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Continue | xcomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 best | det |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 make | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 farm | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 farm | nmod:poss |
| 8 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 best | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wish | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 wish | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 wish | nsubj |
| 12 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Continue | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wish | xcomp |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 get | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 kingdom | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 18 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 back | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 take | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 take | cc |
| 21 | also | also | ADV | _ | 22 take | advmod |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 wish | conj |
| 23 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Princess | case |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 Princess | det |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Princess | amod |
| 27 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obl |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 me | case |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 take | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 teach | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 teach | cc |
| 32 | teach | teach | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 take | parataxis |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 teach | obj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 useful | mark |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 useful | cop |
| 36 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 teach | xcomp |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 find | punct |
| 38 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 44 find | obj |
| 39 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 41 come | advmod |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 come | nsubj |
| 41 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 find | advcl |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 find | nsubj |
| 43 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 find | aux |
| 44 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 teach | conj |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 find | obj |
| 46 | cured | cure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 her | acl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 faults | case |
| 48 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 faults | nmod:poss |
| 49 | faults | fault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 cured | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Continue | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | imperative | you not said here | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | you not said here | the best | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset good=Product | ||||
| 3 | wish a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get back not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | take | infinitive | you not said here | care | of this little Princess; for me | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent care=Theme of princess=Source for i=Beneficiary | |||
| 6 | teach speech: other | infinitive | Princess | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||||
| 7 | is | to-infinitive | useful property | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | come | present | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | find | may | I | that | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Theme her=Attribute | ||||
| 10 | cure | participle | of Princess's faults | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer of fault=Theme | |||||
| 11 | fault | Princess | nom fault «act transitive»: poss=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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