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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 33

“Truly,” said the prince, “I have seen things which I have not understood; what do they mean, and what is the story of them?

Who acts: prince, pearls · What happens: say, see, not understand, mean, be · To what, where: seen things, story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, pearls), 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

punctadvmodpunctpunctdetobjpunctpunctnsubjauxamodparataxisnsubj:passnsubjauxadvmodacl:relclpunctobjauxnsubjparataxispunctccnsubjcopdetparataxiscasenmodpunctroot“PUNCTTrulyADV,PUNCT”PUNCTsaidVERBtheDETprinceNOUN,PUNCT“PUNCTIPRONhaveAUXseenVERBthingsNOUNwhichPRONIPRONhaveAUXnotPARTunderstoodVERB;PUNCTwhatPRONdoAUXtheyPRONmeanVERB,PUNCTandCCONJwhatPRONisAUXtheDETstoryNOUNofADPthemPRON?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_5 saidpunct
2TrulytrulyADV_5 saidadvmod
3,,PUNCT_2 Trulypunct
4”"PUNCT_2 Trulypunct
5saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 princedet
7princeprinceNOUNNumber=Sing5 saidobj
8,,PUNCT_13 thingspunct
9“"PUNCT_12 seenpunct
10IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs12 seennsubj
11havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin12 seenaux
12seenseeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass13 thingsamod
13thingsthingNOUNNumber=Plur5 saidparataxis
14whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel18 understoodnsubj:pass
15IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs18 understoodnsubj
16havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin18 understoodaux
17notnotPARTPolarity=Neg18 understoodadvmod
18understoodunderstandVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass13 thingsacl:relcl
19;;PUNCT_23 meanpunct
20whatwhatPRONPronType=Int23 meanobj
21dodoAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin23 meanaux
22theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs23 meannsubj
23meanmeanVERBVerbForm=Inf13 thingsparataxis
24,,PUNCT_29 storypunct
25andandCCONJ_29 storycc
26whatwhatPRONPronType=Int29 storynsubj
27isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin29 storycop
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 storydet
29storystoryNOUNNumber=Sing5 saidparataxis
30ofofADP_31 themcase
31themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs29 storynmod
32??PUNCT_5 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: askpastthe princetruly propertyvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2see in a quotepresent · perfectthe prince = princevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3not understand in a quotepresent · perfect · passiveseen thingsvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
4mean in a quotepresent · do-supportpearls = pearlseen thingsvn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
5is a in a quotepresentthe storyof pearls = pearltree 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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