The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 50
‘“Madam,” I answered, rising, “you may be very sure that I shall not do anything to alarm your birds.
Who acts: I, you, little girl · What happens: answer, rise, be, not do · To what, where: anything · 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, you, little girl), 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 | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Madam | punct |
| 3 | Madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Madam | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Madam | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rising | punct |
| 9 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 answered | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sure | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 sure | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 sure | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 sure | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 sure | cop |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 sure | advmod |
| 16 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rising | parataxis |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 do | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 do | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 do | advmod |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 sure | ccomp |
| 22 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 do | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 alarm | mark |
| 24 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 do | obl |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 birds | nmod:poss |
| 26 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 alarm | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | I | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | rise | gerund | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | may | you | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not do in a quote | shall | little girl = girl | anything | alarm obl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |
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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