The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 45
“But do not go into any of the rooms that I spoke of yesterday, or I will wring your head off,” said he, and then went away with his flock of goats.
Who acts: giant · What happens: not go, speak, wring off, say, go away · To what, where: any, rooms, head · 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 (giant), 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 | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 go | cc |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 go | advmod |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 said | ccomp |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 any | case |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 go | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 rooms | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rooms | det |
| 10 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 any | nmod |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 spoke | obj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 spoke | nsubj |
| 13 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 rooms | acl:relcl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 yesterday | case |
| 15 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spoke | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wring | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 wring | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 wring | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 wring | aux |
| 20 | wring | wring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | conj |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 head | nmod:poss |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wring | obj |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 wring | compound:prt |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 said | nsubj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 went | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 went | cc |
| 30 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 went | advmod |
| 31 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 said | conj |
| 32 | away | away | ADV | _ | 31 went | advmod |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 flock | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 flock | nmod:poss |
| 35 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 went | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 goats | case |
| 37 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 flock | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go in a quote | infinitive · do-support | any | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into any=Initial_Location | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other in a quote | past | giant | the rooms | yesterday | tree rules | |||
| 3 | wring off in a quote | future | giant | your head | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | giant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | go away | past | giant not said here | then | with giant's flock of goats; away property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with flock=Beneficiary |
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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