The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 62
‘Oh, it is Turritella who wishes me to be her knight,’ said the King coldly.
Who acts: behalf, Turritella · What happens: be, wish, say · To what, where: Turritella, me, knight · 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 (behalf, Turritella), 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 | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 Turritella | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 Turritella | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Turritella | cop |
| 6 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 wishes | nsubj |
| 8 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Turritella | acl:relcl |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 wishes | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 knight | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 knight | cop |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 knight | nmod:poss |
| 13 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wishes | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Turritella | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Turritella | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 19 | coldly | coldly | ADV | _ | 16 said | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | behalf | Turritella | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wish | present | Turritella | me | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | Turritella's knight | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Turritella | coldly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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