The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 31
At last, however, the bride’s sister rolled an apple across the yard to him, and said: “As you won’t eat anything else, you may like to take a bite of that, for you must be both hungry and thirsty after your long journey.”
Who acts: sister, you, your · What happens: roll, say, not eat, like, take, be · To what, where: apple, giant, last, anything, bite, that · 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 (sister, you, your), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rolled | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 10 rolled | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bride | det |
| 7 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sister | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 bride | case |
| 9 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rolled | nsubj |
| 10 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 apple | det |
| 12 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rolled | obj |
| 13 | across | across | ADP | _ | 15 yard | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 yard | det |
| 15 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rolled | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 rolled | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 rolled | parataxis |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 like | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 like | punct |
| 23 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 eat | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 eat | nsubj |
| 25 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 eat | aux |
| 26 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 eat | advmod |
| 27 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 like | advcl |
| 28 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 27 eat | obj |
| 29 | else | else | ADV | _ | 28 anything | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 eat | punct |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 like | nsubj |
| 32 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 like | aux |
| 33 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | ccomp |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 take | mark |
| 35 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 hungry | advcl |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 bite | det |
| 37 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 take | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 that | case |
| 39 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 bite | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 be | punct |
| 41 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 44 be | mark |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 44 be | nsubj |
| 43 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 be | aux |
| 44 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 46 hungry | cop |
| 45 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 46 hungry | cc:preconj |
| 46 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 like | parataxis |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 thirsty | cc |
| 48 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 hungry | conj |
| 49 | after | after | ADP | _ | 52 journey | case |
| 50 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 journey | nmod:poss |
| 51 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 journey | amod |
| 52 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 like | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 like | punct |
| 54 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | past | the bride's sister | a apple | giant | last | across the yard; however property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent apple=Theme at last=Trajectory across yard=Initial_Location to he=Destination | |
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | not eat in a quote | future | you | anything | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | ||||
| 4 | like in a quote | may | you | after your long journey | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 5 | take in a quote | to-infinitive | a bite of that | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | infinitive | hungry property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | be in a quote | tree rules | |||||||
| 8 | bite in a quote | that | nom bite «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 9 | journey in a quote | your | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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