The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 51
‘And what may you be wanting, Gossip?’ said she.
Who acts: you, Mazilla · What happens: want, say · To what, where: Gossip · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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, Mazilla), 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 wanting | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wanting | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 wanting | obj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 wanting | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 wanting | nsubj |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wanting | aux |
| 7 | wanting | want | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Gossip | punct |
| 9 | Gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wanting | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 wanting | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 wanting | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | may · progressive | you | Gossip | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme gossip=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Mazilla | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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