The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 60

‘You are in the Forest of the Black Bird; it is here that he utters his oracles.’

Who acts: You, Forest, Bird · What happens: be, utter · To what, where: Forest, oracles

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, Forest, Bird), 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	_	6 Forest	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 Forest	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Forest	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 Forest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Forest	det
6	Forest	Forest	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 here	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 Bird	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Bird	det
9	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Bird	amod
10	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Forest	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 here	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 here	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 here	cop
14	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 utters	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 utters	nsubj
17	utters	utter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 here	advcl
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 oracles	nmod:poss
19	oracles	oracle	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 utters	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 here	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	You		the Forest	of the Black Bird	tree rules
2	is	present	the Forest			here property	tree rules
3	utter speech: other	present	Bird	Bird's oracles			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent oracle=Topic

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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