The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 79
‘It was in vain that I replied as before, and with the strongest desire to be taken at my word, “Nothing at all.”
Who acts: gallery, I, my · What happens: be, reply, take, word · To what, where: word
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 (gallery, I, my), 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 | _ | 5 vain | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 vain | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 vain | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 vain | case |
| 5 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 replied | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 vain | advcl |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 before | advmod |
| 10 | before | before | ADV | _ | 8 replied | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 desire | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 desire | cc |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 desire | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 desire | det |
| 15 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 desire | amod |
| 16 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 vain | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 taken | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 taken | aux:pass |
| 19 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 desire | acl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 word | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 word | nmod:poss |
| 22 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 taken | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Nothing | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Nothing | punct |
| 25 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 word | appos |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 all | case |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 Nothing | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 vain | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 vain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | gallery | vain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | I | before property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive · passive | gallery not said here | my word | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: at word=Asset | ||||
| 4 | word | my | nom word «communication transitive»: 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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