The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 13

‘Ah! you are pleased to jest, popinjay!’ said the Queen, ‘but it will be my turn soon!’

Who acts: you, Queen, popinjay · What happens: be, jest, say · To what, where: popinjay, turn · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, 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, Queen, popinjay), 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	_	6 pleased	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	6 pleased	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 pleased	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pleased	cop
6	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 jest	mark
8	jest	jest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 pleased	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 popinjay	punct
10	popinjay	popinjay	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 jest	obj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 pleased	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 pleased	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 Queen	det
15	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 turn	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 turn	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 turn	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 turn	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 turn	cop
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 turn	nmod:poss
23	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	ccomp
24	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 turn	advmod
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 turn	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	you		pleased property	tree rules
2	jest speech: other	to-infinitive	you not said here	popinjay		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the Queen			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	future	popinjay	my turn	soon property	tree rules

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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