The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 178
“Captain,” said they, “go away quickly from our island, or we shall perish, every mouse of us.”
Who acts: Captain, mice, we · What happens: say, go away, perish · To what, where: island, mouse · 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 (Captain, mice, we), 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 | _ | 2 Captain | punct |
| 2 | Captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Captain | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Captain | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 go | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 go | advmod |
| 11 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 9 go | advmod |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 island | case |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 island | nmod:poss |
| 14 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 perish | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 perish | cc |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 perish | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 perish | aux |
| 19 | perish | perish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 mouse | punct |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 mouse | det |
| 22 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 perish | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 us | case |
| 24 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 mouse | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 perish | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 perish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Captain | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go away in a quote | infinitive | mice = mouse | our island | away, quickly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from island=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | perish in a quote | shall | we | every mouse of us | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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