The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 54
‘Only a moment since you mentioned my name, and now you do not know me, Fiordelisa,’ said he sadly.
Who acts: you, moment, my · What happens: mention, not know, say, name · To what, where: name, me · 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, moment, my), 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 moment | punct |
| 2 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 moment | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 said | nsubj |
| 5 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 7 mentioned | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 mentioned | nsubj |
| 7 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 moment | acl:relcl |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 name | nmod:poss |
| 9 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mentioned | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 know | cc |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 know | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 know | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 know | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 know | advmod |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 mentioned | ccomp |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 know | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Fiordelisa | punct |
| 19 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 know | vocative |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 moment | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 moment | punct |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sadly | nsubj |
| 24 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 22 said | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mention speech: other | past | you | my name | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not know | present · do-support | you | me | now | Fiordelisa vocative | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a moment | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | name | my | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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