The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 6

‘It is certain,’ said he, ‘that something is wrong--what it is I don’t know how to tell you, but in some way your work is imperfect.’

Who acts: grief, he, something, I, work, your · What happens: be, say, not know, tell, work · To what, where: you, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grief, he, something, 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 certain	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 certain	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 certain	cop
4	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 certain	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 certain	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wrong	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 wrong	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 something	nsubj
12	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 wrong	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 wrong	cop
14	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 know	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 know	obj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 what	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 what	cop
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 know	nsubj
20	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 know	aux
21	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 know	advmod
22	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wrong	parataxis
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 tell	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 tell	mark
25	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 know	conj
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 tell	iobj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 imperfect	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 imperfect	cc
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 way	case
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 way	det
31	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 imperfect	obl
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 work	nmod:poss
33	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 imperfect	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 imperfect	cop
35	imperfect	imperfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 know	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 wrong	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 wrong	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	grief			certain property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	he				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	something			wrong property	tree rules
4	is a	present	grief				tree rules
5	not know	present · do-support	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here	you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
7	is	present	your work		some way	imperfect property	tree rules
8	work		your				nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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