The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 11

“That is a very good answer,” said the King; “and you, my daughter,” he continued, “why did you take a blue dress?”

Who acts: That, good answer, you · What happens: be, say, continue, take · To what, where: good answer, blue dress · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, good answer, 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	_	7 answer	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 answer	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 answer	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 answer	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 good	advmod
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 answer	amod
7	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 answer	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 answer	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 King	det
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 continued	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 continued	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 you	cc
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 continued	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 daughter	punct
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 daughter	nmod:poss
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 you	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 daughter	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 you	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 continued	nsubj
23	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 take	punct
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 take	punct
26	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	29 take	advmod
27	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 take	aux
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 take	nsubj
29	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 continued	ccomp
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 dress	det
31	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 dress	amod
32	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 take	obj
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	29 take	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	That	a good answer	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a good answer		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	continue	past	you		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take in a quote	past · do-support	you	a blue dress	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=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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