The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 18

‘Dear, dear! what is the matter?’ said the Fairy of the Beech-Woods soothingly.

Who acts: matter, Fairy · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (matter, Fairy), 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 dear	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dear	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dear	punct
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	ccomp
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 dear	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 dear	conj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 what	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 matter	det
9	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 what	nsubj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dear	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 dear	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Fairy	det
14	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	19 Woods	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Woods	det
17	Beech	Beech	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Woods	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Beech	punct
19	Woods	Woods	PROPN	Number=Plur	14 Fairy	nmod
20	soothingly	soothingly	ADV	_	14 Fairy	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the matter						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the Fairy of the Beech Woods						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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