The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 85
‘Oh! don’t you see that it is meant for me?’ cried Celandine.
Who acts: you · What happens: see, mean, cry · To what, where: lovely original · 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 (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 | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 do | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 do | advmod |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 meant | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 meant | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 meant | aux:pass |
| 11 | meant | mean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 see | ccomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 meant | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 meant | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 cried | punct |
| 16 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 meant | conj |
| 17 | Celandine | Celandine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 cried | flat |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | mean | present · passive | lovely original = original | for me | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for i=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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