The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 88
‘Fiordelisa must be in league with them, to annoy me!’ she said.
Who acts: Fiordelisa · What happens: be, annoy, say · 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 (Fiordelisa), 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 | _ | 2 Fiordelisa | punct |
| 2 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 league | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 league | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 league | case |
| 6 | league | league | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Fiordelisa | appos |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 league | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 annoy | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 annoy | mark |
| 11 | annoy | annoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Fiordelisa | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 annoy | obj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fiordelisa | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fiordelisa | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | in league; with Princes = prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | annoy | to-infinitive | Fiordelisa not said here | me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Fiordelisa | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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