The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 280

‘Will some one be kind enough to tell me the meaning of all this?’ cried the Lord of Avesnes.

Who acts: some · What happens: be, tell, cry, mean · To what, where: meaning, me, Lord, this · 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 (some), 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 kind	punct
2	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	aux
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 kind	nsubj
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 kind	nsubj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 kind	cop
6	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cried	advmod
7	enough	enough	ADV	_	6 kind	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 tell	mark
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 kind	xcomp
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 tell	iobj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 meaning	det
12	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 this	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 this	det:predet
15	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 meaning	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 kind	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 kind	punct
18	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Lord	det
20	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 cried	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Avesnes	case
22	Avesnes	Avesnes	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Lord	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	future	some			enough, kind property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	some not said here	the meaning of this	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient meaning=Topic
3	cry speech: express	past		the Lord of Avesnes			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	mean			this			nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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