The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 76
I was lifted up on to the unicorn, behind Mirlifiche, who said to me--
Who acts: Mirlifiche · What happens: lift up, say · To what, where: I, Mirlifiche, me · 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 (Mirlifiche), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 lifted | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lifted | aux:pass |
| 3 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 lifted | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 unicorn | case |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 unicorn | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 unicorn | det |
| 8 | unicorn | unicorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lifted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Mirlifiche | punct |
| 10 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 11 Mirlifiche | case |
| 11 | Mirlifiche | Mirlifiche | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lifted | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Mirlifiche | advcl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 said | obl |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift up | past · passive | I | Mirlifiche | on the unicorn | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme on unicorn=Destination behind mirlifiche=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Mirlifiche | me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient |
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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