The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 56
“Such a good little dog as I am,” cried Tintin, “could not think of letting either of you die for his mistress.
Who acts: good little dog, you · What happens: cry, not think, let, die · To what, where: either · 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 (good little dog, 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 | _ | 6 dog | punct |
| 2 | Such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 dog | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dog | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dog | amod |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dog | amod |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 am | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 am | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 ” | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 am | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 dog | punct |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Tintin | Tintin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 think | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 think | punct |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 think | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 think | advmod |
| 18 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 cried | conj |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 letting | mark |
| 20 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 think | advcl |
| 21 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 letting | obj |
| 22 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 24 die | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 die | nsubj |
| 24 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 either | advcl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 mistress | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 27 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 die | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | such good little dog | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not think speech: other in a quote | could | such good little dog not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | let in a quote | gerund | such good little dog not said here | either | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent either=Theme | ||||
| 4 | die in a quote | present | you | for dog's mistress | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for mistress=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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