The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 19

‘There! there!’ said the Fairy, ‘I am not offended.

Who acts: I · What happens: say, not be · To what, where: Fairy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 there	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 there	expl
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 there	punct
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 said	advmod
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 there	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 there	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Fairy	det
9	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 offended	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 offended	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 offended	nsubj
13	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 offended	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 offended	advmod
15	offended	offended	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the Fairy		there			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fairy=Topic
2	not is	present	I					offended property	tree rules

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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