The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 49
Still, if you are clever at anything,” she added, “I might be able to put up with your presence.”
Who acts: you, girl, I · What happens: be, add, put up · To what, where: anything · 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 (you, girl, 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 6 clever | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Still | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 clever | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 clever | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 clever | cop |
| 6 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 anything | case |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 clever | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 anything | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 anything | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 added | nsubj |
| 12 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 anything | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 able | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 able | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 able | nsubj |
| 16 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 able | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 able | cop |
| 18 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 added | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 put | mark |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 able | xcomp |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 put | compound:prt |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 presence | case |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 presence | nmod:poss |
| 24 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 clever | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 clever | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | anything | still | clever property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | add speech: assert in a quote | past | girl | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | might | I | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | put up | to-infinitive | I not said here | with your presence | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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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