The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 43

“Ah! madam,” she cried, “if I might beg you to stay here a moment I would run and fetch my pot of pinks for you--they could not fall into better hands.”

Who acts: Queen, pinks · What happens: cry, beg, stay, run, fetch, not fall · To what, where: madam, you, moment, pot, better hands · 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, pinks), 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 madam	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 madam	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 madam	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 madam	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cried	nsubj
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 beg	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 beg	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 beg	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 beg	nsubj
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 beg	aux
14	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cried	conj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 beg	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 stay	mark
17	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 beg	advcl
18	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 stay	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 moment	det
20	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stay	obl:unmarked
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 run	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 run	aux
23	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 moment	acl:relcl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fetch	cc
25	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 stay	conj
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 pot	nmod:poss
27	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fetch	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 pinks	case
29	pinks	pink	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 pot	nmod
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 you	case
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 fetch	obl
32	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 fall	punct
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 fall	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 fall	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 fall	advmod
36	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cried	parataxis
37	into	into	ADP	_	39 hands	case
38	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	39 hands	amod
39	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 fall	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 fall	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	36 fall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Queen	madam					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	beg speech: request a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	might	Queen		you				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	stay in a quote	to-infinitive	Queen not said here			here	moment		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	run in a quote	would	Queen	a moment not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme moment=Trajectory
5	fetch in a quote	infinitive	Queen not said here	my pot of pinks				for you	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent pot=Theme for you=Beneficiary
6	not fall in a quote	could	pinks = pink					into better hands result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=Result

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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