The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 147

‘You can’t really mean what you say?’ replied the woman.

Who acts: You · What happens: not mean, say, reply · To what, where: woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	_	6 mean	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 mean	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 mean	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 mean	advmod
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 mean	advmod
6	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 replied	ccomp
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 say	obj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 say	nsubj
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mean	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 mean	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 mean	punct
12	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woman	det
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 replied	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not mean	can	You		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	present	you		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	reply speech: assert	past		the woman	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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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