The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 89
“Say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ without fear,” he replied.
Who acts: you · What happens: say, reply · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 2 Say | punct |
| 2 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 yes | punct |
| 4 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 2 Say | obj |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 yes | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 replied | cc |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 no | punct |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 no | punct |
| 10 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 fear | case |
| 11 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 replied | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fear | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 fear | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 replied | nsubj |
| 15 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 yes | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | without fear | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=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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