The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 46
“Run, run,” said the Queen; “I am impatient to see the dear creature.”
Who acts: Queen · What happens: run, say, be, see · To what, where: dear creature · 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 (Queen), 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 Run | punct |
| 2 | Run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 run | punct |
| 4 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Run | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Run | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Run | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Queen | det |
| 9 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 impatient | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 impatient | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 impatient | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 impatient | cop |
| 14 | impatient | impatient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 see | mark |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 impatient | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 creature | det |
| 18 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 creature | amod |
| 19 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 impatient | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 impatient | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run in a quote | infinitive | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | run in a quote | infinitive | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the Queen = queen | impatient property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | the Queen = queen not said here | the dear creature | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=Stimulus |
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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