The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 66
I know that horrible Black Bird, and the lengthiness of all his proceedings and surroundings.’
Who acts: I, Prince · What happens: know, proceed
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 (I, Prince), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 Bird | mark |
| 4 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Bird | amod |
| 5 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Bird | amod |
| 6 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 know | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lengthiness | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lengthiness | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lengthiness | det |
| 10 | lengthiness | lengthiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Bird | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 proceedings | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 proceedings | det:predet |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 proceedings | nmod:poss |
| 14 | proceedings | proceedings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 10 lengthiness | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 surroundings | cc |
| 16 | surroundings | surroundings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 14 proceedings | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | proceed | Prince | nom proceedings «act intransitive»: poss=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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