The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 82

‘Indeed, I meant only that it was a good likeness,’ said the Princess meekly.

Who acts: I, life, Princess · What happens: mean, be, say · To what, where: good likeness · 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 (I, life, Princess), 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 meant	punct
2	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	5 meant	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Indeed	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 meant	nsubj
5	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
6	only	only	ADV	_	12 likeness	advmod
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 likeness	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 likeness	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 likeness	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 likeness	det
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 likeness	amod
12	likeness	likeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meant	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 meant	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 meant	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Princess	det
17	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
18	meekly	meekly	ADV	_	17 Princess	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	past	I		indeed property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	life	a good likeness		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the Princess			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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