The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 225
“To-morrow I brew, to-day I bake, And then the child away I’ll take; For little deems my royal dame That Rumpelstiltzkin is my name!”
Who acts: messenger, child, Rumpelstiltzkin · What happens: brew, bake, take, deem, be · To what, where: royal dame, name
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 (messenger, child, Rumpelstiltzkin), 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 brew | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 morrow | case |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 To | punct |
| 4 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brew | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 brew | nsubj |
| 6 | brew | brew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bake | punct |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 day | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 to | punct |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bake | obl |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 bake | nsubj |
| 12 | bake | bake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 brew | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 take | punct |
| 14 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 take | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 take | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 child | det |
| 17 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 take | nsubj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 child | advmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 take | nsubj |
| 20 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 take | aux |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 brew | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 deems | punct |
| 23 | For | for | ADP | _ | 24 little | case |
| 24 | little | little | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 deems | advmod |
| 25 | deems | deem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 brew | conj |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 dame | nmod:poss |
| 27 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 dame | amod |
| 28 | dame | dame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 deems | obj |
| 29 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 Rumpelstiltzkin | det |
| 30 | Rumpelstiltzkin | Rumpelstiltzkin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 name | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 name | cop |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 name | nmod:poss |
| 33 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 deems | parataxis |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 33 name | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 brew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brew in a quote | present | the messenger = messenger | to morrow | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bake in a quote | present | the messenger = messenger | day | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | future | the child | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | deem in a quote | present | the messenger = messenger not said here | my royal dame | little property | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent dame=Attribute | |||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | that Rumpelstiltzkin | 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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