The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 2
You may imagine that I was by this time half dead with fatigue, but Mirlifiche insisted upon my feeding her unicorn before I did anything else.
Who acts: You, I, Mirlifiche, my · What happens: imagine, be, insist, feed, do · To what, where: unicorn, anything
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, Mirlifiche, my), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 imagine | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 imagine | aux |
| 3 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 dead | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 dead | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 dead | cop |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 half | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 half | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 half | compound |
| 10 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 11 dead | obl |
| 11 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 imagine | ccomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 fatigue | case |
| 13 | fatigue | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dead | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 insisted | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 insisted | cc |
| 16 | Mirlifiche | Mirlifiche | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 insisted | nsubj |
| 17 | insisted | insist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 imagine | conj |
| 18 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 20 feeding | mark |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 feeding | nsubj |
| 20 | feeding | feed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 insisted | advcl |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 unicorn | nmod:poss |
| 22 | unicorn | unicorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 feeding | obj |
| 23 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 25 did | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 did | nsubj |
| 25 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 feeding | advcl |
| 26 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 25 did | obj |
| 27 | else | else | ADV | _ | 26 anything | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | may | You | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is | past | I | by this time half; with fatigue; dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | insist speech: other | past | Mirlifiche | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | feed | gerund | my | Mirlifiche's unicorn | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent unicorn=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | do | past | I | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |
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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