The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 11

Indeed, I may tell you in confidence, that I always find disobedience answer very well.

Who acts: I, disobedience · What happens: tell, find, answer · To what, where: you, confidence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, disobedience), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	5 tell	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 confidence	case
8	confidence	confidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 find	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 find	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 find	nsubj
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 find	advmod
13	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	parataxis
14	disobedience	disobedience	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 answer	nsubj
15	answer	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 find	ccomp
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 well	advmod
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 answer	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	may	I	you	confidence	indeed property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	find	present	I			always property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	answer speech: assert	present	disobedience			well property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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