The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 13
"Fail not," said Blue Beard, "to bring it me presently."
Who acts: Blue Beard · What happens: not fail, say, bring · To what, where: key · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Blue Beard), 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 | _ | 2 Fail | punct |
| 2 | Fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 Fail | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fail | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fail | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Beard | amod |
| 8 | Beard | Beard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bring | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 bring | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 bring | mark |
| 12 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | obj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | obj |
| 15 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 12 bring | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 bring | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fail in a quote | infinitive | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Blue Beard | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bring in a quote | to-infinitive | key | presently property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument it=Theme i=Destination |
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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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