The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 126
“Ah!” said the Queen, smiling, “I think she will not refuse now.”
Who acts: Queen · What happens: say, smile, think, not refuse · 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 (Queen), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Queen | det |
| 7 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 smiling | punct |
| 9 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 think | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 think | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 think | nsubj |
| 13 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 refuse | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 refuse | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 refuse | advmod |
| 17 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 think | ccomp |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 refuse | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | smile | gerund | the Queen not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | present | the Queen = queen | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not refuse in a quote | future | Queen | now | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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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