The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 61
‘Oh! what are you telling me?’ cried the Princess.
Who acts: you, telling · What happens: tell, cry · To what, where: me, 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 (you, telling), 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 | _ | 7 telling | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 telling | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 telling | obj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 telling | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 telling | nsubj |
| 7 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 cried | csubj |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 telling | iobj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 telling | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 telling | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Princess | det |
| 13 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · progressive | you | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Topic | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | telling | the Princess | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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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