The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 48
‘“Who are you, little girl,” said she, “who dares to come where I allow no mortal to live, lest my birds should be disturbed?
Who acts: little girl · What happens: be, say, dare, come, allow, live · To what, where: little girl, mortal, birds · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (little girl), 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 girl | punct |
| 3 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 girl | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 girl | cop |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 girl | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 girl | punct |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 girl | amod |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 girl | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 girl | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dares | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 dares | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 dares | nsubj |
| 16 | dares | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 come | mark |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 dares | xcomp |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 allow | advmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 allow | nsubj |
| 21 | allow | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | advcl |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 mortal | det |
| 23 | mortal | mortal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 allow | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 live | mark |
| 25 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 mortal | acl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 disturbed | punct |
| 27 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 32 disturbed | mark |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 birds | nmod:poss |
| 29 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 disturbed | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 disturbed | aux |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 disturbed | aux:pass |
| 32 | disturbed | disturb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 live | advcl |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | little girl | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | little girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | dare in a quote | present | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | come in a quote | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | allow in a quote | present | little girl = girl | no mortal | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mortal=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | live in a quote | to-infinitive | little girl = girl not said here | no mortal not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | disturb in a quote | should · passive | my birds | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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