The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 68
‘Oh, do tell me where it is,’ cried the you man.
Who acts: you, gold · What happens: tell, be, cry, man · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, gold), 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 tell | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 tell | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | aux |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | iobj |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 tell | ccomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 where | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 where | cop |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 12 cried | cc |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 man | nsubj |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative · do-support | you not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | gold | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | you not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | man | you | 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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