The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 221
When the little man arrived on the following day she began with Kasper, Melchior, Belshazzar, and all the other names she knew, in a string, but at each one the manikin called out: “That’s not my name.”
Who acts: little man, Queen, other names, That · What happens: arrive, follow, begin, know, call out, not be · To what, where: string, one manikin, name · 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 (little man, Queen, other names, That), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 arrived | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrived | nsubj |
| 5 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 began | advcl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 8 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 day | amod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrived | obl |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 began | nsubj |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 Kasper | case |
| 13 | Kasper | Kasper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 began | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Melchior | punct |
| 15 | Melchior | Melchior | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Kasper | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Belshazzar | punct |
| 17 | Belshazzar | Belshazzar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Kasper | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 knew | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 knew | cc |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 names | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 names | det |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 names | amod |
| 23 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 knew | nsubj |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 knew | nsubj |
| 25 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 began | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 string | punct |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 string | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 string | det |
| 29 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 knew | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 manikin | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 manikin | cc |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 one | case |
| 33 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 one | det |
| 34 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 manikin | compound |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 manikin | det |
| 36 | manikin | manikin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 began | parataxis |
| 37 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 manikin | acl |
| 38 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 called | compound:prt |
| 39 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 45 name | punct |
| 40 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 name | punct |
| 41 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 45 name | nsubj |
| 42 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 name | cop |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 name | advmod |
| 44 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 name | nmod:poss |
| 45 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 manikin | appos |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 45 name | punct |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 manikin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the little man | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | begin | past | Queen | with Kasper and Melchior and Belshazzar | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with kasper=Subeventuality | ||||
| 4 | know | past | all other names | a string | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | call out speech: assert | participle | the one manikin not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | not is a in a quote | present | That | my name | tree rules |
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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