The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 27
Make haste, I beg of you, and come down to breakfast, for I have put by some delicious cream for you.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: make, beg, come down, put · To what, where: haste, breakfast
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), 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 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Make | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 beg | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 beg | nsubj |
| 5 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Make | advcl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 beg | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 come | cc |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Make | conj |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 come | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 breakfast | case |
| 13 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 put | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 put | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 put | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 put | aux |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 come | conj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 cream | case |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 cream | det |
| 21 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cream | amod |
| 22 | cream | cream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | obl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 you | case |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 put | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Make | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | haste | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | present | I | of you | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come down | infinitive | you not said here | breakfast | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to breakfast=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | put | present · perfect | I | by some delicious cream; for you | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by cream=Destination |
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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