The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 85

‘You don’t seem to have any idea in these parts beyond little squeaking birds!’ said he.

Who acts: You, enchanter · What happens: not seem, have, say · To what, where: idea, parts · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, enchanter), 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	_	5 seem	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 seem	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 seem	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 seem	advmod
5	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 have	mark
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 seem	xcomp
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 idea	det
9	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 parts	case
11	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 parts	det
12	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	obl
13	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	16 birds	case
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 birds	amod
15	squeaking	squeaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 birds	compound
16	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 parts	nmod
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 seem	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 seem	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not seem	present · do-support	You			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	have	to-infinitive	You not said here	any idea	this parts beyond little squeaking birds	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	enchanter			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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