The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 11

‘By all means, my little kitchen-maid,’ said Turritella, highly delighted.

Who acts: Turritella · What happens: mean, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Turritella), 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	_	4 means	punct
2	By	by	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 means	obl
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 maid	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 maid	nmod:poss
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 maid	amod
8	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 maid	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 kitchen	punct
10	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 maid	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 maid	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 means	conj
14	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 delighted	punct
16	highly	highly	ADV	_	17 delighted	advmod
17	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present						by all	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Turritella						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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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