The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 11
‘Am I to understand that you are not pleased?’ he said very sharply.
Who acts: I, you, prince · What happens: understand, not be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, prince), 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 understand | punct |
| 2 | Am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 understand | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 understand | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 understand | mark |
| 5 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 pleased | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 pleased | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 pleased | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 pleased | advmod |
| 10 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 understand | ccomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 understand | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 understand | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 sharply | advmod |
| 16 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 14 said | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not is | present | you | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | prince | sharply property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=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 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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