The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 58
Tell me what country I have got into, and nothing else.’
Who acts: you, country · What happens: tell, get · To what, where: nothing, me · 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, country), 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 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 1 Tell | obj |
| 4 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | nsubj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 got | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | aux |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 got | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 nothing | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 nothing | cc |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 1 Tell | obl |
| 12 | else | else | ADV | _ | 11 nothing | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | nothing | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Topic | |||
| 2 | get | present · perfect | country | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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