The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 25

‘How much the bird reminds me of the musical snuff-box of the late Empress!’ said an old courtier.

Who acts: much bird, old courtier · What happens: remind, say · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (much bird, old courtier), 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 reminds	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 much	advmod
3	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bird	amod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reminds	nsubj
6	reminds	remind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 reminds	iobj
8	of	of	ADP	_	13 box	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 box	det
10	musical	musical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 box	amod
11	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 box	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 snuff	punct
13	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reminds	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 Empress	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Empress	det
16	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Empress	amod
17	Empress	Empress	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 box	nmod
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 Empress	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 Empress	punct
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reminds	parataxis
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 courtier	det
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 courtier	amod
23	courtier	courtier	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	nsubj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 reminds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remind speech: other	present	the much bird		me			of the musical snuff box of the late Empress	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent i=Recipient of box=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	a old courtier						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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