The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 103

Perhaps you mean to tell me that you have discovered a mine of them in the tower!’

Who acts: you · What happens: mean, tell, discover · To what, where: me, mine, tower · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	3 mean	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 mean	nsubj
3	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 tell	mark
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 mean	xcomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 discovered	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 discovered	nsubj
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 discovered	aux
10	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 tell	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 mine	det
12	mine	mine	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 discovered	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 mine	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 tower	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tower	det
17	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 discovered	obl
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 mean	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 mean	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	you				perhaps property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	discover	present · perfect	you	a mine of diamonds		the tower		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mine=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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