The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4, sentence 9
Now you can imagine these two devoted lovers hunting night and day.
Who acts: you, these, two devoted lovers · What happens: imagine, lover, hunt
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 (you, these, two devoted lovers), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 imagine | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 imagine | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 imagine | aux |
| 4 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 lovers | nsubj |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 lovers | nummod |
| 7 | devoted | devoted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lovers | amod |
| 8 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 imagine | ccomp |
| 9 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 lovers | acl |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hunting | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 day | cc |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 night | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | can | you | now | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | lover | these | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | hunt | gerund | two devoted lovers not said here | night | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=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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