The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 221
‘Ah me!’ said Titty, ‘so you don’t know your poor Zizi?
Who acts: Titty, you · What happens: say, not know · To what, where: poor Zizi · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Titty, you), 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 me | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 3 me | discourse |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 me | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 me | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Titty | Titty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Titty | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 know | advmod |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 know | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 know | aux |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 know | advmod |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | conj |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 Zizi | nmod:poss |
| 16 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Zizi | amod |
| 17 | Zizi | Zizi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 know | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Titty | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not know | present · do-support | you | your poor Zizi | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer zizi=Stimulus |
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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