The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 29
“You are not very rich, then?” said the Queen, smiling.
Who acts: You, Queen · What happens: not be, say, smile · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Queen), 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 | _ | 6 rich | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 rich | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 rich | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 rich | advmod |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 rich | advmod |
| 6 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rich | punct |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 rich | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 rich | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 rich | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Queen | det |
| 13 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 smiling | punct |
| 15 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | You | then | rich property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | smile | gerund | the Queen not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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