The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 36
‘I assure you, Sire, that Fiordelisa is vain enough already.
Who acts: I, Fiordelisa · What happens: assure, be · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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, Fiordelisa), 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 | _ | 3 assure | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 assure | nsubj |
| 3 | assure | assure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 assure | iobj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Sire | punct |
| 6 | Sire | Sire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 assure | vocative |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 vain | punct |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 vain | mark |
| 9 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 vain | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 vain | cop |
| 11 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 assure | conj |
| 12 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 11 vain | advmod |
| 13 | already | already | ADV | _ | 11 vain | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 assure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assure | present | I | you | Sire vocative | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is | present | Fiordelisa | enough, vain 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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