The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 79
‘That means that you consider it flattered,’ said the Prince severely.
Who acts: That, you, cause, Prince · What happens: mean, consider, flatter, 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 (That, you, cause, Prince), 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 | _ | 3 means | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 consider | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 consider | nsubj |
| 6 | consider | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 flattered | nsubj |
| 8 | flattered | flatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 consider | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 consider | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Prince | det |
| 13 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | severely | severely | ADV | _ | 11 said | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | That | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | consider | present | you | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | flatter | past | cause | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Prince | severely property | 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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