The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 18
"You do not know," replied Blue Beard; "I very well know, you were resolved to go into the closet, were you not?
Who acts: You, Blue Beard · What happens: not know, reply, know, resolve, go, not be · To what, where: you, closet · 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 (You, 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 | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 replied | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Blue | Blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Beard | amod |
| 10 | Beard | Beard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 resolved | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 know | nsubj |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 know | advmod |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 very | fixed |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 resolved | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 resolved | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 resolved | aux:pass |
| 20 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 replied | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 go | mark |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 resolved | xcomp |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 closet | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 closet | det |
| 25 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 go | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 were | punct |
| 27 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | conj |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 were | nsubj |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 were | advmod |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: ask | past | Blue Beard | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | Blue Beard = beard | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | resolve in a quote | past · passive | you | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | the closet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into closet=Initial_Location | |||||
| 6 | not be in a quote | past | you | 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 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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