The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 72
“‘No,’ replied the old fairy, ‘we will have nothing but your little daughter.
Who acts: we · What happens: reply, have · To what, where: old fairy, nothing
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 (we), 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 | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 3 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 replied | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 No | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fairy | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fairy | amod |
| 9 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 have | aux |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 replied | conj |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 have | obj |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 daughter | cc |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 daughter | amod |
| 19 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 nothing | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | the old fairy | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fairy=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | future | we | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
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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