The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 13
If anyone were to taste that his throat would be gilded,” said the youth, and then he went into the next chamber.
Who acts: anyone, throat · What happens: taste, gild, say, go · To what, where: throat, youth, next chamber · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anyone, throat), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 taste | mark |
| 2 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 taste | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taste | aux |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 taste | mark |
| 5 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 gilded | mark |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 throat | nmod:poss |
| 8 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gilded | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 gilded | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 gilded | aux:pass |
| 11 | gilded | gild | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 taste | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 taste | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 taste | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 youth | det |
| 16 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 went | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | conj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 chamber | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 chamber | det |
| 24 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 chamber | amod |
| 25 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | taste a condition, not said to happen | past | anyone | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | gild | would · passive | Prince's throat | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the youth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent youth=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | past | throat | the next chamber | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into chamber=Initial_Location |
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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