The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 175
“These cats will eat every one of us,” she said, “if the captain of the ship does not shut the ferocious animals up.
Who acts: cats, queen, captain · What happens: eat, say, not shut · To what, where: one, ferocious animals · 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 (cats, queen, captain), 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 eat | punct |
| 2 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 cats | det |
| 3 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eat | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 eat | aux |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 one | det |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eat | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 us | case |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 one | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 eat | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 eat | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 shut | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 shut | punct |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 shut | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 captain | det |
| 18 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shut | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 ship | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ship | det |
| 21 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 captain | nmod |
| 22 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 shut | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 shut | advmod |
| 24 | shut | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 animals | det |
| 26 | ferocious | ferocious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 animals | amod |
| 27 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 shut | obj |
| 28 | up | up | ADV | _ | 24 shut | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat in a quote | future | this cats | every one of us | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not shut a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | the captain of the ship | the ferocious animals | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent animal=Patient |
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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