The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 87
“I will have it so,” replied the Queen (and this she spoke in the tone of an Ogress who had a strong desire to eat fresh meat), “and will eat her with a sauce Robert.”
Who acts: I, Queen, Ogress · What happens: have, reply, speak, eat, intonate · To what, where: clerk, tone, strong desire, fresh meat, queen, Ogress · 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 (I, Queen, Ogress), 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 | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 have | obj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 have | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Queen | det |
| 11 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 spoke | nsubj |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 spoke | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 spoke | cc |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 spoke | nsubj |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 spoke | nsubj |
| 16 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 tone | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tone | det |
| 19 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spoke | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Ogress | case |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 Ogress | det |
| 22 | Ogress | ogress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tone | nmod |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 had | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 Ogress | acl:relcl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 desire | det |
| 26 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 desire | amod |
| 27 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 had | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 eat | mark |
| 29 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 desire | acl |
| 30 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 meat | amod |
| 31 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 eat | obj |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 29 eat | punct |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 eat | punct |
| 34 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 eat | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 eat | cc |
| 36 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 eat | aux |
| 37 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 eat | conj |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 eat | obj |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 sauce | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 sauce | det |
| 41 | sauce | sauce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 eat | obl |
| 42 | Robert | Robert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 sauce | appos |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | future | I | clerk | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | the Queen | the tone of a Ogress | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | have | past | a Ogress | a strong desire | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient | ||||
| 5 | eat | to-infinitive | a Ogress not said here | fresh meat | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient | ||||
| 6 | eat in a quote | future | a Ogress not said here | queen | with a sauce | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 7 | intonate | a Ogress | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=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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