The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 55
“No, no, my little Grabugeon,” replied Miranda, “I cannot bear the thought of taking your life.”
Who acts: little Grabugeon, thought · What happens: reply, not bear, take · To what, where: Miranda, thought, life · 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 (little Grabugeon, thought), 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 | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 Grabugeon | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 No | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Grabugeon | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Grabugeon | nmod:poss |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Grabugeon | amod |
| 8 | Grabugeon | Grabugeon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Grabugeon | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Grabugeon | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Miranda | Miranda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bear | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 bear | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 bear | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 bear | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 bear | advmod |
| 18 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 thought | det |
| 20 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bear | obj |
| 21 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 22 taking | mark |
| 22 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 thought | acl |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 life | nmod:poss |
| 24 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 taking | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 bear | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | my little Grabugeon | Miranda | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not bear in a quote | can | my little Grabugeon = grabugeon | the thought | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | gerund | the thought not said here | your life | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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