The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 55
I know who you mean,’ interrupted the Fairy.
Who acts: I · What happens: know, mean, interrupt · To what, where: Fairy · 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 (I), 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 | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 mean | nsubj |
| 5 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 interrupted | punct |
| 8 | interrupted | interrupt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Fairy | det |
| 10 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 interrupted | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | interrupt | past | I not said here | the Fairy | tree rules |
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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