The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 133
For could he not whisper soft speeches to Sweet, and laugh with Joy, while he looked at Beauty?
Who acts: Prince, you · What happens: not whisper, laugh, look · To what, where: soft speeches, Sweet
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 (Prince, you), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 whisper | mark |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 whisper | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 whisper | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 whisper | advmod |
| 5 | whisper | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 laugh | advcl |
| 6 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 speeches | amod |
| 7 | speeches | speech | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 whisper | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Sweet | case |
| 9 | Sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 whisper | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 laugh | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 laugh | cc |
| 12 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 Joy | case |
| 14 | Joy | Joy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 laugh | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 looked | punct |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 looked | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 looked | nsubj |
| 18 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 laugh | parataxis |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 Beauty | case |
| 20 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 looked | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 laugh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not whisper speech: assert | could | Prince | soft speeches | Sweet | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent speech=Topic to sweet=Recipient | |||
| 2 | laugh | imperative | you not said here | with Joy | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | look | past | Prince | at Beauty | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at beauty=Theme |
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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