The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 37

"Come down quickly," cried Blue Beard, "or I will come up to you."

Who acts: you, Blue Beard, sister · What happens: come down, cry, come up · To what, where: you · 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, sister), 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 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 Come	advmod
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 Come	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Come	advcl
8	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Beard	amod
9	Beard	Beard	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 come	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 come	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Come	conj
16	up	up	ADV	_	15 come	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 come	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	come down in a quote	imperative	you not said here		down, quickly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	Blue Beard			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come up in a quote	future	sister	you		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location

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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