The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 60
‘You confuse the names, Sire,’ said the page hastily.
Who acts: You · What happens: confuse, say · To what, where: names · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | _ | 3 confuse | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 confuse | nsubj |
| 3 | confuse | confuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 names | det |
| 5 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 confuse | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sire | punct |
| 7 | Sire | Sire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 names | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 confuse | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 confuse | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 page | det |
| 12 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hastily | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 10 said | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confuse | present | You | the names | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | hastily property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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