The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 56
She gave it a push with her foot, saying: “What are you doing here, and how dared you put yourself in the place of my pot of pinks?”
Who acts: cabbage, you · What happens: give, say, do, dare, put · To what, where: voice, yourself, place · 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 (cabbage, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 push | det |
| 5 | push | push | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 foot | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 foot | nmod:poss |
| 8 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 push | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saying | punct |
| 10 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 gave | advcl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 doing | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 doing | punct |
| 13 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 doing | obj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 doing | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 doing | nsubj |
| 16 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 saying | conj |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 doing | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 put | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 put | cc |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 dared | advmod |
| 21 | dared | dare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 put | advcl |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 put | nsubj |
| 23 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 24 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 put | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 place | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 place | det |
| 27 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 put | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 pot | case |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 pot | nmod:poss |
| 30 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 place | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 pinks | case |
| 32 | pinks | pink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 pot | nmod |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | cabbage | voice | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient push=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | gerund | cabbage not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present · progressive | you | here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | dare in a quote | participle | you not said here | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | put in a quote | past | you | yourself | the place of my pot of pinks | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme in place=Destination |
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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