The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 93

‘Didn’t I tell you what it would be?’ growled the old hag.

Who acts: I, shelter · What happens: not do, tell, be, growl · To what, where: you, old hag · 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, shelter), 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	_	2 Did	punct
2	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 growled	parataxis
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 Did	advmod
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Did	ccomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 be	obj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 be	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 be	aux
10	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tell	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Did	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Did	punct
13	growled	growl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hag	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hag	amod
16	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 growled	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 growled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not do	past				tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	I		you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	be	would	shelter			vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
4	growl	past		the old hag		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hag=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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