The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 86
“And he is to blame for all her misfortunes,” added the magpie.
Who acts: bridegroom, magpie · What happens: be, add · 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 (bridegroom, magpie), 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 blame | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 blame | cc |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 blame | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 blame | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 blame | mark |
| 6 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 added | ccomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 misfortunes | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 misfortunes | det:predet |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 misfortunes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | misfortunes | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 blame | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 blame | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 blame | punct |
| 13 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 magpie | det |
| 15 | magpie | magpie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 added | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | bridegroom | for thrush's misfortunes; blame property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past | the magpie | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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