The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 50
“What can we do?” said Miranda; “unless you take him my heart and my tongue he will never believe you.”
Who acts: we, Miranda, you, king · What happens: do, say, take, not believe · To what, where: king, you · 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 (we, Miranda, you, king), 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 | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Miranda | Miranda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 believe | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 believe | punct |
| 12 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 14 take | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 take | nsubj |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 believe | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 take | obj |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 heart | nmod:poss |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 tongue | cc |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 20 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heart | conj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 believe | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 believe | aux |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 believe | advmod |
| 24 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 believe | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 believe | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | can | we | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Miranda | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | king | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Theme heart=Destination | ||||
| 4 | not believe in a quote | future | king | you | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=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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