The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 104

‘I don’t know about that,’ answered she; ‘but at any rate you don’t seem to have come to bring me anything.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: not know, answer, not seem, come, bring · To what, where: Princess, rate, anything, me

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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	_	5 know	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 know	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	conj
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 answered	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 seem	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 seem	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 seem	cc
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 rate	case
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 rate	det
17	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 seem	obl
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 seem	nsubj
19	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 seem	aux
20	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 seem	advmod
21	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 know	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	24 come	mark
23	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 come	aux
24	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 seem	xcomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 bring	mark
26	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 come	xcomp
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 bring	obj
28	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 bring	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not know	present · do-support	I				about that	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about that=Stimulus
2	answer speech: assert	past	I not said here		Princess			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
3	not seem	present · do-support	you			any rate		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	come	to-infinitive · perfect	you not said here					tree rules
5	bring	to-infinitive	you not said here	anything	me			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination anything=Theme

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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