The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 50

‘You mean that for a joke,’ said the old woman, as gently as ever, ‘but that is really my name, and some day you will know more about me.’

Who acts: You, old woman, that, day · What happens: mean, say, be, know · To what, where: name, more · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, old woman, that, day), 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	_	3 mean	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 mean	nsubj
3	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 said	mark
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 joke	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 joke	det
7	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 joke	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 joke	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mean	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gently	punct
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 gently	advmod
16	gently	gently	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
17	as	as	ADP	_	18 ever	case
18	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 gently	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 name	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 name	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 name	cc
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 name	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 name	cop
24	really	really	ADV	_	26 name	advmod
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 name	nmod:poss
26	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 know	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 know	cc
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 day	det
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 know	nsubj
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 know	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 know	aux
33	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 mean	conj
34	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 know	obj
35	about	about	ADP	_	36 me	case
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 more	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 mean	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 mean	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	You			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	the old woman		for a joke; gently property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	that	my name		tree rules
4	know	future	some day	more		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus

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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