The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 18
“Some talk about going from bad to worse,” said the Prince; “but this is better and better.
Who acts: Some, Prince, this · What happens: talk, go, say, be · To what, where: bad · 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 (Some, Prince, this), 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 | _ | 3 talk | punct |
| 2 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 talk | nsubj |
| 3 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 5 going | mark |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 talk | advcl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 bad | case |
| 7 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 going | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 worse | case |
| 9 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 going | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 talk | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 talk | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Prince | det |
| 14 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 better | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 better | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 better | cc |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 better | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 better | cop |
| 20 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 said | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 better | cc |
| 22 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 better | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk in a quote | present | Some | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | gerund | Some not said here | bad | to worse | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from bad=Initial_Location to bad=Destination | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | this | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be in a quote | this not said here | 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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