The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 82

‘Ah, Princess, they cannot seem so long to you as they do to me!’ he answered.

Who acts: eyes, stepmother · What happens: not seem, do, answer · To what, where: 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 (eyes, stepmother), 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 seem	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	9 seem	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Princess	punct
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Ah	vocative
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 seem	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 seem	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 seem	advmod
9	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 answered	ccomp
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 long	advmod
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 seem	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 you	case
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 long	obl
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 do	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 do	nsubj
16	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 long	advcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 do	obl
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 seem	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 seem	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 answered	nsubj
22	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	not seem	can	eyes = eye		long property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	do	present	eyes = eye	me		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	answer speech: assert	past	stepmother			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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