The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4, sentence 2

‘Alas! yes, madam,’ she answered, ‘and if you will but cure him, you may take me back to the farm, or bring the Green Giant to life again, and you shall see how obedient I will be.’

Who acts: she, you, I · What happens: answer, cure, take back, bring, see, be · To what, where: ‘, Vivien, me, farm, Green, life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (she, you, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 madam	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	6 madam	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 madam	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 yes	punct
6	madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answered	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 madam	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 madam	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 answered	nsubj
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ‘	punct
12	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answered	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 take	cc
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 will	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 will	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 take	aux
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 cure	cc
18	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 will	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 cure	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 will	punct
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 take	nsubj
22	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 take	aux
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 answered	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 take	obj
25	back	back	ADV	_	23 take	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 farm	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 farm	det
28	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 bring	punct
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 bring	cc
31	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 take	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Green	det
33	Green	Green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 bring	obj
34	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 bring	xcomp
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 life	case
36	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bring	obl
37	again	again	ADV	_	31 bring	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 see	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 see	cc
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 see	nsubj
41	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 see	aux
42	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 answered	parataxis
43	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	44 obedient	advmod
44	obedient	obedient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 see	obj
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 be	nsubj
46	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 be	aux
47	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 obedient	ccomp
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	42 see	punct
49	’	'	PUNCT	_	42 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	she	‘				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ‘=Eventuality
2	cure	infinitive	you not said here	Vivien				vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer he=Source
3	take back	may · future	you	me	the farm			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to farm=Destination
4	bring	infinitive	you not said here	the Green	life	again	giant property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent green=Theme to life=Destination
5	see	shall	you	obedient				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer obedient=Stimulus
6	be	future	I					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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