The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 50

‘By all means, only give me the pie,’ said the greedy Turritella.

Who acts: all, greedy Turritella · What happens: mean, give, say · To what, where: pie, 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 (all, greedy 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	_	7 give	punct
2	By	by	SCONJ	_	4 means	mark
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 give	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 give	advmod
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 give	iobj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pie	det
10	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Turritella	det
15	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Turritella	amod
16	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	mean	present	all			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	give	infinitive		the pie	me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient pie=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the greedy Turritella			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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