The Green Fairy Book, ‘somebody Has Been Sitting in My Chair!’, sentence 4
said the Middle Bear, in his middle voice.
Who acts: Middle Bear · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, ‘somebody Has Been Sitting in My Chair!’. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Middle Bear), 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 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Bear | det |
| 3 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Bear | compound |
| 4 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 voice | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 voice | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 voice | nmod:poss |
| 8 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 voice | amod |
| 9 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Bear | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Middle Bear in Bear's middle voice | 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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