The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 105
“No, no, madam” (cried the poor clerk of the kitchen, all in tears); “you shall not die, and yet you shall see your children again; but then you must go home with me to my lodgings, where I have concealed them, and I shall deceive the Queen once more, by giving her in your stead a young hind.”
Who acts: madam, you · What happens: cry, not die, see, go, conceal, deceive · To what, where: poor clerk, tears, children, lodgings, Queen, young hind · 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 (madam, you), 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 | _ | 6 madam | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 madam | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 No | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 6 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 madam | punct |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 clerk | det |
| 11 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 clerk | amod |
| 12 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 kitchen | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 kitchen | det |
| 15 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 clerk | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tears | punct |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 tears | det |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 tears | case |
| 19 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cried | obl |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 tears | punct |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 die | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 die | punct |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 die | nsubj |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 die | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 die | advmod |
| 26 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 see | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 see | cc |
| 29 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 32 see | advmod |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 see | nsubj |
| 31 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 see | aux |
| 32 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 die | conj |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 children | nmod:poss |
| 34 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 see | obj |
| 35 | again | again | ADV | _ | 32 see | advmod |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 go | punct |
| 37 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 go | cc |
| 38 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 41 go | advmod |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 go | nsubj |
| 40 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 go | aux |
| 41 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | conj |
| 42 | home | home | ADV | _ | 41 go | advmod |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 me | case |
| 44 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 go | obl |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 lodgings | case |
| 46 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 lodgings | nmod:poss |
| 47 | lodgings | lodging | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 go | obl |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 concealed | punct |
| 49 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 52 concealed | advmod |
| 50 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 52 concealed | nsubj |
| 51 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 concealed | aux |
| 52 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 47 lodgings | acl:relcl |
| 53 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 concealed | obj |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 deceive | punct |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 deceive | cc |
| 56 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 58 deceive | nsubj |
| 57 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 58 deceive | aux |
| 58 | deceive | deceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | parataxis |
| 59 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 60 Queen | det |
| 60 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 58 deceive | obj |
| 61 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 62 more | advmod |
| 62 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 58 deceive | advmod |
| 63 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 65 giving | punct |
| 64 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 65 giving | mark |
| 65 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 58 deceive | advcl |
| 66 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 65 giving | iobj |
| 67 | in | in | ADP | _ | 69 stead | case |
| 68 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 69 stead | nmod:poss |
| 69 | stead | stead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 giving | obl |
| 70 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 72 hind | det |
| 71 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 72 hind | amod |
| 72 | hind | hind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 giving | obj |
| 73 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 65 giving | punct |
| 74 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 58 deceive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | madam | the poor clerk of the kitchen | all tears | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not die in a quote | shall | you | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | shall | you | your children | yet; again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | go in a quote | must | you | my lodgings | then | with madam; home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lodging=Initial_Location | ||
| 5 | conceal in a quote | present · perfect | madam | children = child | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 6 | deceive in a quote | shall | madam | the Queen | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Patient | ||||
| 7 | give in a quote | gerund | madam not said here | a young hind | queen | your stead | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient hind=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 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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