The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 48
“But if I take your ring, my pretty shepherdess,” said the Queen, “you will have nothing left; and what will you do then?”
Who acts: Queen, you · What happens: take, say, have, leave, do · To what, where: ring, nothing · 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 | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 take | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 take | nsubj |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | advcl |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ring | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shepherdess | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 shepherdess | nmod:poss |
| 10 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 shepherdess | amod |
| 11 | shepherdess | shepherdess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ring | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Queen | det |
| 16 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 have | aux |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | conj |
| 22 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 21 have | obj |
| 23 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 nothing | acl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 do | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 do | cc |
| 26 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 29 do | obj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 do | aux |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 do | nsubj |
| 29 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 30 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 do | advmod |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 29 do | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the Queen = queen | your ring | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | future | you | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 4 | leave in a quote | participle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | do in a quote | future | you | then | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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