The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 3
“It is just beginning,” said the first drop of blood on the stool.
Who acts: bench, first drop · What happens: begin, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, 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 (bench, first drop), 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 beginning | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 beginning | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 beginning | aux |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 beginning | advmod |
| 5 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 beginning | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 beginning | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 drop | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 drop | amod |
| 11 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 blood | case |
| 13 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drop | nmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 stool | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stool | det |
| 16 | stool | stool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drop | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin in a quote | present · progressive | bench | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the first drop of blood | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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