The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 102
‘Well, you certainly are a splendid workman,’ he said to the Prince.
Who acts: you, magician · What happens: be, say · To what, where: splendid workman, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, magician), 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 workman | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 9 workman | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 workman | nsubj |
| 5 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 9 workman | advmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 workman | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 workman | det |
| 8 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 workman | amod |
| 9 | workman | workman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 workman | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 workman | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Prince | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Prince | det |
| 16 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | you | a splendid workman | certainly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | magician | the Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to prince=Recipient |
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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