The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 20
Only say good-by to all your brothers and sisters the night before you come away, and when you have gone to bed turn this ring round upon your finger and say firmly: ‘I wish to go back to my palace and see my Beast again.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: say, come away, go, turn, wish, go back · To what, where: good, bed, ring, Beast · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 say | advmod |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 say | obj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 brothers | case |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 brothers | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 brothers | det:predet |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 9 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 say | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sisters | cc |
| 11 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 brothers | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 night | det |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 say | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 16 come | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 come | nsubj |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | advcl |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 come | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gone | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gone | cc |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 gone | advmod |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 gone | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 gone | aux |
| 23 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 turn | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 bed | case |
| 25 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gone | obl |
| 26 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | parataxis |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 ring | det |
| 28 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 turn | obj |
| 29 | round | round | ADV | _ | 26 turn | advmod |
| 30 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 32 finger | case |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 finger | nmod:poss |
| 32 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 turn | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 say | cc |
| 34 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 turn | conj |
| 35 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 34 say | advmod |
| 36 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 39 wish | punct |
| 37 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 wish | punct |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 wish | nsubj |
| 39 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | parataxis |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 go | mark |
| 41 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 wish | xcomp |
| 42 | back | back | ADV | _ | 41 go | advmod |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 palace | case |
| 44 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 palace | nmod:poss |
| 45 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 go | obl |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 see | cc |
| 47 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 go | conj |
| 48 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 Beast | nmod:poss |
| 49 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 see | obj |
| 50 | again | again | ADV | _ | 47 see | advmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
| 52 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | good | night | by your brothers and sisters | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent good=Topic | ||
| 2 | come away | present | you | away property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | present · perfect | you | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | turn | present | this ring | upon your finger; round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | infinitive | firmly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | go back not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | to my palace result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result | ||||
| 8 | see | infinitive | I not said here | my Beast | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beast=Stimulus |
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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