The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 49
“Take this sword,” she said, “and cut off my head!”
Who acts: Cat · What happens: take, say, cut off · To what, where: sword, head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cat), 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 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 sword | det |
| 4 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 cut | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cut | cc |
| 12 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | ccomp |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 cut | compound:prt |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cut | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 cut | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | infinitive | this sword | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | Cat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | cut off in a quote | participle | my head | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=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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