The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 42
“Take my purse, good woman,” said he, “and mount behind me, for your legs can’t be very strong.”
Who acts: traveler, legs · What happens: take, say, not be · To what, where: purse · 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 (traveler, legs), 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 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 purse | nmod:poss |
| 4 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 woman | punct |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 purse | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mount | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 mount | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 mount | cc |
| 15 | mount | mount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 16 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 mount | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 strong | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 strong | mark |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 legs | nmod:poss |
| 21 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 strong | nsubj |
| 22 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 strong | aux |
| 23 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 strong | advmod |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 strong | cop |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 strong | advmod |
| 26 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 strong | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | infinitive | my purse | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | traveler | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | can | your legs | strong property | tree rules |
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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