The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 43
“Bring this creature to me,” said he; “vermin are dreadful in a court, and if she will perform what you say I will load your ship with gold and jewels in exchange for her.”
Who acts: King, vermin, news, you · What happens: bring, say, be, perform, load · To what, where: creature, King, court, ship · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, vermin, news, 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 | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 2 | Bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 creature | det |
| 4 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Bring | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Bring | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 dreadful | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 dreadful | punct |
| 13 | vermin | vermin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dreadful | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 dreadful | cop |
| 15 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 court | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 court | det |
| 18 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dreadful | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 perform | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 perform | cc |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 perform | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 perform | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 perform | aux |
| 24 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 dreadful | parataxis |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 say | obj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 say | nsubj |
| 27 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 perform | advcl |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 load | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 load | aux |
| 30 | load | load | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 say | ccomp |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 ship | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 load | obj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 gold | case |
| 34 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 load | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 jewels | cc |
| 36 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 gold | conj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 exchange | case |
| 38 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 jewels | nmod |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 her | case |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 exchange | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 dreadful | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 dreadful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | infinitive | this creature | King | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent creature=Theme to i=Destination | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | vermin | a court | dreadful property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | perform a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | news | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | load in a quote | future | King | your ship | with gold and jewels in exchange for news | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent ship=Destination with gold=Theme |
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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