The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 64
“Why should you do that?” said the attorney; “sit still, I will do it.”
Who acts: you, attorney · What happens: do, say, sit · To what, where: that, door · 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, attorney), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 do | advmod |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | parataxis |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 attorney | det |
| 11 | attorney | attorney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 sit | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 sit | punct |
| 14 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 sit | advmod |
| 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 | 14 sit | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 do | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 sit | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | should | you | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the attorney | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | sit in a quote | infinitive | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | future | the attorney = attorney | door | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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