The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 70
‘That I do not know,’ answered the Queen; ‘and even if I did, I might not feel bound to tell you.’
Who acts: I · What happens: not know, answer, do, not feel, tell · To what, where: That, Queen, you · 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 (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 | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 know | obl |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 know | advmod |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Queen | det |
| 11 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 23 feel | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 feel | cc |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 did | advmod |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 did | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 did | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 feel | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 did | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 feel | nsubj |
| 21 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 feel | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 feel | advmod |
| 23 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 know | conj |
| 24 | bound | bound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 feel | xcomp |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 tell | mark |
| 26 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 bound | xcomp |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 tell | iobj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | I | That | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | I not said here | the Queen | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent queen=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | do a condition, not said to happen | past | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not feel | might | I | bound property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | 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 |
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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