The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 47

‘I will tell you with pleasure,’ she answered, ‘but where is the hurry?

Who acts: I, forest · What happens: tell, answer, be · To what, where: you, hurry · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (I, forest), 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	_	4 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 answered	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 pleasure	case
7	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 answered	nsubj
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hurry	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 hurry	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 hurry	cc
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 hurry	advmod
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 hurry	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hurry	det
18	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answered	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	I		you	with pleasure	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	answer speech: assert	past	forest				tree rules
3	is a	present		the hurry			tree rules

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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