The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 7
After that I really thought I should be allowed to go peaceably to my little bed, but, oh dear no!
Who acts: I · What happens: think, allow, go · To what, where: I, little bed · 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 (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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 thought | obl |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 thought | advmod |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 allowed | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 allowed | aux:pass |
| 9 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 allowed | xcomp |
| 12 | peaceably | peaceably | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 bed | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 bed | nmod:poss |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bed | amod |
| 16 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dear | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 dear | discourse |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 but | punct |
| 20 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 21 dear | discourse |
| 21 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thought | parataxis |
| 22 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 21 dear | discourse |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | I | after that | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | allow | should · passive | I | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | my little bed | peaceably property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location |
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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