The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 90
‘Yes,’ replied the youth, ‘and the Porcelain Maiden can tell you the whole truth, if she only will.’
Who acts: Porcelain Maiden · What happens: reply, tell · To what, where: youth, whole truth, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 youth | det |
| 7 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tell | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 15 tell | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tell | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Maiden | det |
| 12 | Porcelain | Porcelain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Maiden | compound |
| 13 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 tell | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 tell | aux |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 tell | iobj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 truth | det |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 truth | amod |
| 19 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tell | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 will | punct |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 will | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 will | nsubj |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 will | advmod |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 tell | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the youth | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent youth=Topic | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | can | the Porcelain Maiden | the whole truth | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient truth=Topic |
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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