The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 53
“Why should you jump up to do that?” said the sheriff; “I will do that!”
Who acts: you, sheriff · What happens: jump up, do, say · To what, where: 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 (you, sheriff), 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 jump | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 jump | advmod |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 jump | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 jump | nsubj |
| 5 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 jump | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 jump | advcl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 do | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 jump | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 jump | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sheriff | det |
| 14 | sheriff | sheriff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 do | obj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump up in a quote | should | you | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | the sheriff | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | future | the sheriff = sheriff | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
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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