The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 207
“I do,” said the blind mouse, “for without my watchfulness our boat would have drifted away to the open sea.”
Who acts: blind mouse · What happens: do, say, drift away · To what, where: boat, open sea · 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 (blind mouse), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | parataxis |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mouse | det |
| 8 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mouse | amod |
| 9 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 drifted | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 drifted | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 watchfulness | case |
| 13 | without | without | ADP | _ | 15 watchfulness | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 watchfulness | nmod:poss |
| 15 | watchfulness | watchfulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drifted | obl |
| 16 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 boat | nmod:poss |
| 17 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drifted | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 drifted | aux |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 drifted | aux |
| 20 | drifted | drift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | conj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 drifted | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 sea | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sea | det |
| 24 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sea | amod |
| 25 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drifted | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | the blind mouse = mouse | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the blind mouse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | drift away in a quote | would · perfect · passive | our boat | the open sea | for my watchfulness; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to sea=Trajectory |
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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