The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 54

I am half killed!” and could not tell where it came from, because cabbages do not generally speak.

Who acts: voice, cabbages · What happens: kill, not tell, come, not speak · To what, where: I · 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 (voice, cabbages), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 killed	nsubj:pass
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 killed	aux:pass
3	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	4 killed	advmod
4	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 killed	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 killed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tell	cc
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 tell	advmod
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 killed	conj
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 came	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	ccomp
14	from	from	ADP	_	13 came	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 speak	punct
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 speak	mark
17	cabbages	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 speak	nsubj
18	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 speak	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 speak	advmod
20	generally	generally	ADV	_	21 speak	advmod
21	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 tell	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 killed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kill	present · passive		I	half property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	not tell speech: assert in a quote	could				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come in a quote	past	voice			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not speak speech: other in a quote	present · do-support	cabbages		generally property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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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