The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 28

‘By all means,’ said the Fairy, ‘especially as the Princess will certainly be glad of a good meal.’

Who acts: all · What happens: mean, say, be · To what, where: Fairy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (all), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	By	by	SCONJ	_	4 means	mark
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Fairy	det
9	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 glad	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 glad	punct
12	especially	especially	ADV	_	15 Princess	advmod
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 Princess	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Princess	det
15	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 glad	obl
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 glad	aux
17	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	19 glad	advmod
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 glad	cop
19	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	advcl
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 meal	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 meal	det
22	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 meal	amod
23	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 glad	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	all			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past		the Fairy		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fairy=Topic
3	is	future			as the Princess; of a good meal; certainly, glad 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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