The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 21

‘If he did hear me,’ she said, ‘could he remain so cruelly indifferent?

Who acts: King, Queen · What happens: hear, say, remain · To what, where: me · 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 (King, Queen), 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 hear	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 hear	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hear	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hear	aux
5	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 hear	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hear	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 hear	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 remain	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 remain	punct
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 remain	aux
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 remain	nsubj
15	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 indifferent	advmod
17	cruelly	cruelly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 indifferent	amod
18	indifferent	indifferent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 remain	xcomp
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	King	me		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	Queen			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	remain	could	King		indifferent property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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