The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 34
‘Your counsel,’ said the Emperor, ‘is excellent, and, as it happens, I’ve got the very thing for him to do.
Who acts: counsel, ‘, it, I · What happens: say, be, happen, have, get, do · To what, where: Emperor, thing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (counsel, ‘, it, 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 | _ | 3 counsel | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 3 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 counsel | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 counsel | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Emperor | det |
| 8 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 excellent | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 excellent | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 excellent | cop |
| 12 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Emperor | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 got | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 got | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 and | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 happens | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 happens | nsubj |
| 18 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 ’ve | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 happens | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 ’ve | nsubj |
| 21 | ’ve | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 and | conj |
| 22 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 thing | det |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 thing | advmod |
| 25 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 got | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 got | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 do | mark |
| 29 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 got | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Your counsel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | ‘ | the Emperor not said here | excellent property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | happen | present | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have | present | I | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | get | past | Your counsel not said here | the thing | for emperor | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent thing=Theme for he=Beneficiary | |||
| 6 | do | to-infinitive | Your counsel not said here | vn act-114-1 «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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