The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 32
‘The Queen at last gave me a spindle and about four pounds of hemp upon a distaff, and sent me out to keep the sheep, assuring me that there could not be a pleasanter occupation, and that I could take my ease as much as I pleased.
Who acts: Queen, I · What happens: give, send out, keep, assure, not be, take · To what, where: spindle, me, sheep, pleasanter occupation, ease
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 (Queen, 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 | _ | 6 gave | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 last | case |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Queen | nmod |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | iobj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 spindle | det |
| 9 | spindle | spindle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pounds | cc |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 four | advmod |
| 12 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 pounds | nummod |
| 13 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 spindle | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 hemp | case |
| 15 | hemp | hemp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pounds | nmod |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 distaff | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 distaff | det |
| 18 | distaff | distaff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hemp | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sent | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sent | cc |
| 21 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gave | conj |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 sent | obj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 sent | compound:prt |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 keep | mark |
| 25 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 sent | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sheep | det |
| 27 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 keep | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 assuring | punct |
| 29 | assuring | assure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 keep | advcl |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 assuring | obj |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 there | mark |
| 32 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 assuring | advmod |
| 33 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 occupation | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 occupation | advmod |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 occupation | cop |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 occupation | det |
| 37 | pleasanter | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 38 occupation | amod |
| 38 | occupation | occupation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 assuring | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 take | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 take | cc |
| 41 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 take | mark |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 take | nsubj |
| 43 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 take | aux |
| 44 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 gave | conj |
| 45 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 ease | nmod:poss |
| 46 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 take | obj |
| 47 | as | as | ADV | _ | 48 much | advmod |
| 48 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 take | obj |
| 49 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 51 pleased | mark |
| 50 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 51 pleased | nsubj |
| 51 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 much | advcl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the Queen at last | a spindle and four pounds of hemp upon a distaff | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient spindle=Theme | |||
| 2 | send out | past | the Queen at last not said here | me | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | the Queen at last not said here | the sheep | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme | ||||
| 4 | assure | gerund | the Queen at last not said here | me | there | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 5 | not is a | could | a pleasanter occupation | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | take | could | I | my ease | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument ease=Theme much=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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