The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 219
Then the Queen began to cry and sob so bitterly that the little man was sorry for her, and said: “I’ll give you three days to guess my name, and if you find it out in that time you may keep your child.”
Who acts: Queen, little man, you, my · What happens: begin, cry, sob, be, say, give · To what, where: you, name, child · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, little man, you, my), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 began | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 cry | mark |
| 6 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 began | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sob | cc |
| 8 | sob | sob | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cry | conj |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 bitterly | advmod |
| 10 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 8 sob | advmod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 sorry | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sorry | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sorry | cop |
| 16 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sob | advcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sorry | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 began | conj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 give | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 give | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 give | nsubj |
| 25 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 give | aux |
| 26 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 said | ccomp |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 give | iobj |
| 28 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 days | nummod |
| 29 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 give | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 guess | mark |
| 31 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 give | advcl |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 name | nmod:poss |
| 33 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 guess | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 keep | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 keep | cc |
| 36 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 38 find | mark |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 find | nsubj |
| 38 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 keep | advcl |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 find | obj |
| 40 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 find | compound:prt |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 time | case |
| 42 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 43 time | det |
| 43 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 find | obl |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 46 keep | nsubj |
| 45 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 keep | aux |
| 46 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 began | advcl |
| 47 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 child | nmod:poss |
| 48 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 keep | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
| 50 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the Queen | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | the Queen not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sob | infinitive | the Queen not said here | bitterly property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the little man | for Queen; sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the Queen not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | give in a quote | future | the Queen = queen | you | day | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 7 | guess in a quote | to-infinitive | the Queen = queen not said here | my name | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | ||||
| 8 | find out a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | name | time | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 9 | keep in a quote | may | you | your child | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | ||||
| 10 | name in a quote | my | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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