The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 65

‘Oh! you are joking, cousin,’ interrupted Prince Vivien; ‘you mean as slowly as possible.

Who acts: you · What happens: joke, interrupt, mean · To what, where: cousin, Vivien

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 (you), 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 joking	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 joking	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 joking	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 joking	aux
6	joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 interrupted	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cousin	punct
8	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 joking	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 joking	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 joking	punct
11	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Vivien	nmod:desc
13	Vivien	Vivien	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 interrupted	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 mean	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 mean	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 mean	nsubj
17	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 interrupted	conj
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 slowly	advmod
19	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	17 mean	advmod
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 possible	mark
21	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 mean	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 interrupted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	joke speech: other	present · progressive	you	cousin		vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	interrupt	past		Vivien Prince		tree rules
3	mean	present	you		slowly property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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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