The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4, sentence 7
She quite agreed with him, the Princess was in a bad way--‘But,’ said she, ‘if you can find the Rosy Mole, and give him to her she will recover.’
Who acts: Fairy, Princess · What happens: agree, be, say, find, give, recover · To what, where: bad way, Rosy Mole, Prince · 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 (Fairy, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 2 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 3 agreed | advmod |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 agreed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 way | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Princess | det |
| 8 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 way | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 way | cop |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 way | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 way | det |
| 12 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 way | amod |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 agreed | parataxis |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 16 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 But | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 But | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 way | conj |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 find | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 she | punct |
| 22 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 find | punct |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 find | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 find | nsubj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 find | aux |
| 26 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | ccomp |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Mole | det |
| 28 | Rosy | rosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Mole | amod |
| 29 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 find | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 give | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 give | cc |
| 32 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 find | conj |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 give | iobj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 her | case |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 give | obl |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 recover | nsubj |
| 37 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 recover | aux |
| 38 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 way | acl:relcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 way | punct |
| 40 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | Fairy | with Prince | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the Princess | a bad way | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Princess not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | find a condition, not said to happen | can | Fairy | the Rosy Mole | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mole=Topic | ||||
| 5 | give | infinitive | Fairy not said here | Prince | to Fairy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to she=Recipient | |||
| 6 | recover | future | Fairy | a bad way not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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