The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 91

“Now you are angry with me, my poor Hyacinth,” said the Fairy, “and I assure you that I didn’t mean to vex you; on the contrary, I wished to do you a service.

Who acts: you, Fairy · What happens: be, say, assure, not mean, vex, wish · To what, where: you, contrary, service · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Fairy), 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	_	5 angry	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 angry	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 angry	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	cop
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 said	ccomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 angry	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Hyacinth	punct
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 Hyacinth	nmod:poss
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Hyacinth	amod
11	Hyacinth	hyacinth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 me	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 angry	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 angry	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Fairy	det
16	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 assure	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 assure	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 assure	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 assure	nsubj
21	assure	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 assure	iobj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 mean	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 mean	nsubj
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 mean	aux
26	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 mean	advmod
27	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 assure	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 vex	mark
29	vex	vex	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 mean	xcomp
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 vex	obj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 wished	punct
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 contrary	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 contrary	det
34	contrary	contrary	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 wished	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 contrary	punct
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 wished	nsubj
37	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 assure	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 do	mark
39	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 wished	xcomp
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 do	iobj
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 service	det
42	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 do	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	you				now	with the Fairy = fairy; angry property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the Fairy						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	assure in a quote	present	the Fairy = fairy		you				vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	not mean in a quote	past · do-support	the Fairy = fairy						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	vex not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the Fairy = fairy not said here	you					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer
6	wish in a quote	past	the Fairy = fairy			the contrary			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	do not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the Fairy = fairy not said here	a service	you				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 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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