The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 192
I implore you, be content and remain pope.’
Who acts: I · What happens: implore, be, remain · To what, where: you, pope
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 implore | nsubj |
| 2 | implore | implore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 implore | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 content | punct |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 content | cop |
| 6 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 implore | parataxis |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 remain | cc |
| 8 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 content | conj |
| 9 | pope | pope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 remain | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 implore | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 implore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | implore | present | I | you | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | content property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | remain | present | pope | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pope=Attribute |
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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