The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 5
‘Oh yes,’ said the girl in a sad tone, ‘you can if you like, but I should not advise you to do so.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: say, like, not advise, do · To what, where: girl, sad tone, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 said | discourse |
| 3 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 tone | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tone | det |
| 11 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tone | amod |
| 12 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 girl | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 can | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 can | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 can | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 like | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 like | nsubj |
| 19 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 can | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 advise | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 advise | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 advise | nsubj |
| 23 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 advise | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 advise | advmod |
| 25 | advise | advise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | parataxis |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 advise | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 do | mark |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 advise | xcomp |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 do | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the girl | a sad tone | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent girl=Theme in tone=Manner | ||||
| 2 | like a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | not advise speech: other | should | I | you | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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