The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 104
‘I certainly did find them here,’ answered the Princess.
Who acts: I · What happens: find, answer · To what, where: diamonds, Princess · 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 (I), 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 find | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 find | nsubj |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 find | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | aux |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 answered | ccomp |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 find | obj |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 find | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Princess | det |
| 12 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · do-support | I | diamonds = diamond | here | certainly property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | ||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the Princess | tree rules |
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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