The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 76
“Do you really mean what you say, Prince?” said the Fairy, quite deceived.
Who acts: you, Fairy · What happens: mean, say, deceive · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. 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 | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mean | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 mean | advmod |
| 5 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 say | obj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 say | nsubj |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mean | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Prince | punct |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 mean | parataxis |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Fairy | det |
| 15 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 deceived | punct |
| 17 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 18 deceived | advmod |
| 18 | deceived | deceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | the Fairy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | deceive | past | the Fairy not said here | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: 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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