The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 36
‘Yes, indeed, madam,’ replied Sylvia; ‘and I will tell you why.
Who acts: madam, I · What happens: reply, tell · To what, where: you · 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 (madam, 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 | _ | 6 madam | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 madam | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 6 madam | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 indeed | punct |
| 6 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 madam | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 madam | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Sylvia | Sylvia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 tell | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 tell | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 tell | aux |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 replied | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 tell | iobj |
| 18 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 tell | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | madam | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | future | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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