The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 33
‘You are with me, dear lady,’ he answered, and told her all that had happened, and how he had brought her to life again.
Who acts: You, power, that · What happens: be, answer, tell, happen, bring · To what, where: woman, life · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, power, that), 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 | _ | 5 me | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 me | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 me | cop |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 answered | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lady | punct |
| 7 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lady | amod |
| 8 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 me | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lady | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 me | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 answered | nsubj |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 told | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 told | cc |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 answered | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 told | iobj |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 happened | det:predet |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 happened | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 happened | aux |
| 20 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 told | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 brought | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 brought | cc |
| 23 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 brought | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 brought | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 brought | aux |
| 26 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 happened | conj |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 brought | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 life | case |
| 29 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 brought | obl |
| 30 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 brought | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | with me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | power | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | power not said here | woman | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | happen | past · perfect | that | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bring | past · perfect | power | woman | life | again | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to life=Destination |
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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