The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 43
"Will you not come down?" cried Blue Beard.
Who acts: you, Blue Beard · What happens: not come down, cry · 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 come | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 come | advmod |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | parataxis |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Blue | Blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Beard | amod |
| 11 | Beard | Beard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come down in a quote | future | you | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Blue Beard | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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 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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