The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 28
She answered: “Fly away, until thou comest to a splendid town, where stands a king’s palace; seek out the king’s son and tell him that a great misfortune has befallen me.”
Who acts: thread, thou · What happens: answer, fly away, come, stand, seek out, tell · To what, where: splendid town, palace, son, King, great misfortune · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thread, thou), 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 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Fly | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Fly | punct |
| 5 | Fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 answered | ccomp |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 Fly | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 comest | punct |
| 8 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 10 comest | mark |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 comest | nsubj |
| 10 | comest | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Fly | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 town | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 town | det |
| 13 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 town | amod |
| 14 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 comest | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stands | punct |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 stands | advmod |
| 17 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 town | acl:relcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 palace | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 king | case |
| 21 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stands | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 seek | punct |
| 23 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 Fly | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 seek | compound:prt |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 king | det |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 son | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 king | case |
| 28 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seek | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 tell | cc |
| 30 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 seek | conj |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 tell | iobj |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 befallen | mark |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 misfortune | det |
| 34 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 misfortune | amod |
| 35 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 befallen | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 befallen | aux |
| 37 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 tell | ccomp |
| 38 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 befallen | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Fly | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | thread | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fly away in a quote | infinitive | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present | thou | a splendid town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | stand in a quote | present | a king's palace | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | seek out in a quote | infinitive | the king's son | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme | |||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | King | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | befall in a quote | present · perfect · passive | a great misfortune | tree rules |
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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