The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 63
‘“I wish you to take this little Princess to my cousin, the Giant of the Green Castle, at once,” she replied, “and beg him from me to make her work day and night upon his beautiful tapestry.”
Who acts: Princess · What happens: wish, take, reply, beg, make · To what, where: you, little Princess, cousin, clanging · 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 (Princess), 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 | _ | 4 wish | punct |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wish | nsubj |
| 4 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 wish | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 take | mark |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wish | xcomp |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 Princess | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Princess | amod |
| 10 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 cousin | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 13 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Giant | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Giant | det |
| 16 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cousin | amod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Castle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Castle | det |
| 19 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Castle | amod |
| 20 | Castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Giant | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 once | punct |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 once | case |
| 23 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 take | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 replied | nsubj |
| 27 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 beg | punct |
| 29 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 beg | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 beg | cc |
| 31 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 replied | ccomp |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 beg | obj |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 me | case |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 beg | obl |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 make | mark |
| 36 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 beg | advcl |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 day | nmod:poss |
| 38 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 day | compound |
| 39 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 make | obj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 night | cc |
| 41 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 day | conj |
| 42 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 45 tapestry | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 tapestry | nmod:poss |
| 44 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 tapestry | amod |
| 45 | tapestry | tapestry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 make | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 replied | punct |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish in a quote | present | Princess | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | this little Princess | my cousin | once property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent princess=Theme to cousin=Destination | ||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Princess | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | beg speech: request in a quote | present | clanging | from Princess | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | day | upon clanging's beautiful tapestry | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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