The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 35

“Now,” said she, “I have time to tell you about the Princess.

Who acts: Mermaid · What happens: say, have, tell · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mermaid), 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 said	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 tell	mark
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 time	acl
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	about	about	ADP	_	17 Princess	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Princess	det
17	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Mermaid		now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	have in a quote	present	Mermaid		time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	Mermaid not said here	you		about the Princess	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient about princess=Topic

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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