The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 70
“‘Ah! my dear madam,’ cried the Queen, ‘is there nothing else that you will take for the fruit?
Who acts: dear madam, nothing, you · What happens: cry, be, take · To what, where: Queen
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 (dear madam, nothing, 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 | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 madam | punct |
| 3 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 7 madam | discourse |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 Ah | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 madam | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 madam | amod |
| 7 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 madam | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 madam | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Queen | det |
| 12 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 is | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 is | punct |
| 15 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | conj |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 is | expl |
| 17 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 is | nsubj |
| 18 | else | else | ADV | _ | 17 nothing | advmod |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 take | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 take | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 take | aux |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 nothing | acl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 fruit | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fruit | det |
| 25 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | my dear madam | the Queen | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Topic | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | future | you | for the fruit | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for fruit=Beneficiary |
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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