The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 116
‘Charming Queen, may this be some slight consolation to you in your unhappiness!’
Who acts: Charming · What happens: be · To what, where: slight consolation, you, unhappiness
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Charming), 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 | _ | 2 Charming | punct |
| 2 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 consolation | nsubj |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Charming | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Charming | punct |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 consolation | aux |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 consolation | nsubj |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 consolation | cop |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 consolation | det |
| 9 | slight | slight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 consolation | amod |
| 10 | consolation | consolation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 consolation | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 unhappiness | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 unhappiness | nmod:poss |
| 15 | unhappiness | unhappiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 consolation | nmod |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 consolation | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 consolation | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | may | Charming | some slight consolation | you | your unhappiness | 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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