The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 19

‘You have told me what I wanted to know,’ cried the Fairy, ‘but alas!

Who acts: I · What happens: tell, want, know, cry · To what, where: You, me, Fairy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Fairy Gifts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	_	4 told	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj:pass
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 cried	advcl
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 told	obj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 wanted	nsubj
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 what	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 know	mark
10	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wanted	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 cried	punct
13	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Fairy	det
15	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cried	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 alas	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 alas	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 alas	cc
19	alas	ala	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 cried	obl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		You	me		tree rules
2	want	past	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	cry speech: express	past		the Fairy		alas obl	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Topic

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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