The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 136
“And now, sire,” said the young captain, “do you not recognize me?”
Who acts: sire, you · What happens: say, not recognize · To what, where: young captain, sire · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sire, you), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sire | cc |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 sire | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sire | punct |
| 5 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sire | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sire | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 captain | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 captain | amod |
| 11 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 recognize | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 recognize | punct |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 recognize | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 recognize | nsubj |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 recognize | advmod |
| 17 | recognize | recognize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 recognize | obj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 recognize | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 recognize | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | sire | the young captain | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not recognize in a quote | present · do-support | you | sire | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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