The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 102
“Do it; do it” (said she, stretching out her neck).
Who acts: queen · What happens: do, say, stretch out · To what, where: life, neck · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Do | obj |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Do | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stretching | punct |
| 12 | stretching | stretch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 stretching | compound:prt |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 neck | nmod:poss |
| 15 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stretching | obj |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 stretching | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | infinitive | life | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | infinitive | life | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | stretch out | gerund | queen not said here | queen's neck | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent neck=Patient |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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