The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 10

“Sire,” she answered, “having heard of your victories I thought that green would signify my joy and the hope of your speedy return.”

Who acts: meaning, green, my, speedy return, your · What happens: answer, hear, think, signify, joy, hope · To what, where: Sire, joy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meaning, green, my, speedy return), 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 Sire	punct
2	Sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 answered	nsubj
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 heard	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 heard	punct
9	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 heard	aux
10	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 answered	ccomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 victories	case
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 victories	nmod:poss
13	victories	victory	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 heard	obl
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 thought	nsubj
15	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 heard	parataxis
16	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 green	det
17	green	green	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 signify	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 signify	aux
19	signify	signify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 thought	ccomp
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 joy	nmod:poss
21	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 signify	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hope	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hope	det
24	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 joy	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 return	case
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 return	nmod:poss
27	speedy	speedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 return	amod
28	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hope	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	meaning	Sire		tree rules
2	hear in a quote	gerund · perfect			of your victories	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of victory=Stimulus
3	think speech: other in a quote	past	meaning			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	signify in a quote	would	that green	my joy and the hope of your speedy return		vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot joy=Theme
5	joy in a quote		my			nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
6	hope in a quote		your speedy return			nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=agent
7	return in a quote		your			nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=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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