The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 69
“As I never in all my life could keep a secret, I could not help telling this strange tale to my neighbors, and one day a beautiful lady came here, and I told it to her also.
Who acts: Queen, beautiful lady · What happens: not keep, not help, tell, come · To what, where: secret, life, strange tale, neighbors, tale, Queen · 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, beautiful lady), 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 | _ | 17 help | punct |
| 2 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 keep | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 keep | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 keep | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 life | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 life | det:predet |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 life | nmod:poss |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keep | obl |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 keep | aux |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 help | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 secret | det |
| 12 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keep | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 keep | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 help | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 help | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 help | advmod |
| 17 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 help | xcomp |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 tale | det |
| 20 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tale | amod |
| 21 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 telling | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 neighbors | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 neighbors | nmod:poss |
| 24 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 telling | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 came | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 came | cc |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 day | nummod |
| 28 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 came | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 lady | det |
| 30 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 lady | amod |
| 31 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 came | nsubj |
| 32 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 help | parataxis |
| 33 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 came | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 told | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 told | cc |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 told | nsubj |
| 37 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 came | conj |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 told | obj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 her | case |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 told | obl |
| 41 | also | also | ADV | _ | 37 told | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not keep in a quote | could | Queen | a secret | my life | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent secret=Theme in life=Location | |||
| 2 | not help in a quote | could | Queen | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote | gerund | Queen not said here | this strange tale | my neighbors | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Topic to neighbor=Recipient | |||
| 4 | come in a quote | past | a beautiful lady | here | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | Queen | tale | Queen | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to she=Recipient |
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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