The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 125
“Don’t keep me in suspense, I entreat you; say that you will marry me.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: not keep, entreat, say, marry · To what, where: me, suspense, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 keep | advmod |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 keep | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 suspense | case |
| 7 | suspense | suspense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keep | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 entreat | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 entreat | nsubj |
| 10 | entreat | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | parataxis |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 entreat | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 say | punct |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 marry | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 marry | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 marry | aux |
| 17 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 say | ccomp |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 marry | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not keep in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | me | suspense | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme in suspense=Location | |||
| 2 | entreat in a quote | present | I | you | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | marry in a quote | future | you | me | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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