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The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 3

‘Show them to someone who understands such things, Madam,’ answered the Queen; ‘after that we can decide upon the price.’

Who acts: you, we · What happens: show, understand, answer, decide · To what, where: pieces, someone, such things, Queen

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 (you, we), 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

punctobjcaseoblnsubjacl:relclamodobjpunctappospunctpunctconjdetobjpunctadvmodmarkmarknsubjauxadvclcasedetoblpunctpunctroot‘PUNCTShowVERBthemPRONtoADPsomeonePRONwhoPRONunderstandsVERBsuchADJthingsNOUN,PUNCTMadamPROPN,PUNCT’PUNCTansweredVERBtheDETQueenPROPN;PUNCT‘ADVafterSCONJthatSCONJwePRONcanAUXdecideVERBuponADPtheDETpriceNOUN.PUNCT’PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1‘'PUNCT_2 Showpunct
2ShowshowVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
3themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs2 Showobj
4totoADP_5 someonecase
5someonesomeonePRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind2 Showobl
6whowhoPRONPronType=Rel7 understandsnsubj
7understandsunderstandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin5 someoneacl:relcl
8suchsuchADJDegree=Pos9 thingsamod
9thingsthingNOUNNumber=Plur7 understandsobj
10,,PUNCT_11 Madampunct
11MadamMadamPROPNNumber=Sing9 thingsappos
12,,PUNCT_2 Showpunct
13’'PUNCT_2 Showpunct
14answeredanswerVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 Showconj
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 Queendet
16QueenQueenPROPNNumber=Sing14 answeredobj
17;;PUNCT_2 Showpunct
18‘‘ADV_2 Showadvmod
19afterafterSCONJ_23 decidemark
20thatthatSCONJ_23 decidemark
21wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs23 decidensubj
22cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin23 decideaux
23decidedecideVERBVerbForm=Inf2 Showadvcl
24uponuponADP_26 pricecase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 pricedet
26pricepriceNOUNNumber=Sing23 decideobl
27..PUNCT_2 Showpunct
28’'PUNCT_2 Showpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1showimperativeyou not said herepieces = piecesomeone‘ propertyvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to someone=Recipient
2understandpresentsuch thingsvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
3answer speech: assertpastyou not said herethe Queenvn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent queen=Eventuality
4decidecanweupon the pricevn correspond-36.1-1 «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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