The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 5
I pray you to let me go; I am not a real flounder, I am an enchanted Prince.
Who acts: I, me · What happens: pray, let, go, not be, enchant, be · To what, where: you, me, real flounder, enchanted Prince
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, me), 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 pray | nsubj |
| 2 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 pray | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 let | mark |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 pray | advcl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 flounder | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 flounder | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 flounder | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 flounder | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 flounder | det |
| 13 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 flounder | amod |
| 14 | flounder | flounder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pray | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Prince | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 Prince | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 Prince | cop |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 Prince | det |
| 19 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 Prince | amod |
| 20 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 flounder | appos |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | present | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let | to-infinitive | I not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | me not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not is a | present | I | a real flounder | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | is a | present | I | a enchanted Prince | tree rules |
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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