The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 89
‘The Porcelain Maiden and the Golden Blackbird know you too?’
Who acts: Porcelain Maiden · What happens: know · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Porcelain Maiden), 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 | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Maiden | det |
| 3 | Porcelain | Porcelain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Maiden | compound |
| 4 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 know | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Blackbird | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Blackbird | det |
| 7 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Blackbird | amod |
| 8 | Blackbird | Blackbird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Maiden | conj |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 know | obj |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 know | advmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | the Porcelain Maiden and the Golden Blackbird | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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