The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 4

‘As the apple of my eye!’ answered she.

Who acts: apple · What happens: answer · To what, where: Princess

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (apple), 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	_	4 apple	punct
2	As	as	ADP	_	4 apple	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 apple	det
4	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answered	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 eye	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 eye	nmod:poss
7	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 apple	nmod
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 apple	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 apple	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 answered	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the apple of my eye		Princess				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality

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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