The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 44
“Go, Felicia,” said the Queen, stroking her cheek softly; “I will wait here until you come back.”
Who acts: Queen, you · What happens: go, say, stroke, wait, come back · To what, where: Felicia, cheek · 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, you), 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 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Felicia | punct |
| 4 | Felicia | Felicia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Go | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Queen | det |
| 9 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stroking | punct |
| 11 | stroking | stroke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 cheek | nmod:poss |
| 13 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stroking | obj |
| 14 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 11 stroking | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 wait | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 wait | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 wait | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 wait | aux |
| 19 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | parataxis |
| 20 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 wait | advmod |
| 21 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 23 come | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 come | nsubj |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 wait | advcl |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 come | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 wait | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | infinitive | Felicia | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stroke | gerund | the Queen not said here | Queen's cheek | softly property | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheek=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | wait in a quote | future | the Queen = queen | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come back in a quote | present | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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