The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 89

‘Oho! my daughter,’ said the Fairy, ‘I see we have no easy task before us.

Who acts: daughter, I, we · What happens: say, see, have · To what, where: Fairy, easy task · 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 (daughter, I, we), 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	_	5 daughter	punct
2	Oho	oho	INTJ	_	5 daughter	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oho	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 daughter	nmod:poss
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 daughter	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 daughter	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Fairy	det
10	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 see	nsubj
14	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 have	nsubj
16	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 see	ccomp
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 task	det
18	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 task	amod
19	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	obj
20	before	before	ADP	_	21 us	case
21	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 have	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	my daughter	the Fairy		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fairy=Topic
2	see	present	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	have	present	we	no easy task	before us	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Patient

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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