The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 47
“You know best,” answered the Mermaid, smiling kindly at him.
Who acts: You, Mermaid · What happens: know, answer, smile · 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 (You, 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 | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 answered | parataxis |
| 4 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 know | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Mermaid | det |
| 9 | Mermaid | Mermaid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 smiling | punct |
| 11 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 answered | advcl |
| 12 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 11 smiling | advmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 smiling | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | You | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the Mermaid | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | smile | gerund | the Mermaid not said here | at Love; kindly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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