The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 24
"I give you," replied Blue Beard, "half a quarter of an hour, but not one moment more."
Who acts: Blue Beard · What happens: give, reply · To what, where: you, quarter · 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 | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | conj |
| 8 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Beard | amod |
| 9 | Beard | Beard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 quarter | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 quarter | punct |
| 12 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 14 quarter | det:predet |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 quarter | det |
| 14 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 hour | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hour | det |
| 17 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 quarter | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 more | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 more | cc |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 one | advmod |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 moment | nummod |
| 22 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 more | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 give | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | present | Blue Beard = beard | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient more=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Blue Beard | half quarter of a hour | vn respond-113 «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 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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