The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 42
“I am not making fun of you,” said a voice, answering Prince Darling’s thoughts.
Who acts: voice, thoughts, Prince Darling · What happens: not make, say, answer, think · To what, where: fun · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, thoughts, Prince Darling), 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 making | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 making | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 making | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 making | advmod |
| 5 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 making | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 fun | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 making | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 making | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 voice | det |
| 13 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 answering | punct |
| 15 | answering | answer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 16 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Darling | compound |
| 17 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Darling | case |
| 19 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 answering | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make in a quote | present · progressive | a voice = voice | fun of you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Product | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | gerund | Prince Darling's thoughts | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | think | Prince Darling | nom thought «cognition transitive»: 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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