The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 88
“Come with me, madam,” said the Sheep; “I offer you a hiding-place which you only will know of, and where you will be mistress of everything you see.”
Who acts: Sheep, you · What happens: come, say, offer, know, be, see · To what, where: madam, hiding place, you, mistress · 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 (Sheep, 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 | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Come | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 madam | punct |
| 6 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Come | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Sheep | det |
| 11 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 offer | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 offer | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 offer | nsubj |
| 15 | offer | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 offer | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 place | det |
| 18 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 place | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 hiding | punct |
| 20 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 offer | obj |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 know | obj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 know | nsubj |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 know | advmod |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 know | aux |
| 25 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 place | acl:relcl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 know | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 mistress | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 mistress | cc |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 33 mistress | advmod |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 mistress | nsubj |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 mistress | aux |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 mistress | cop |
| 33 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 everything | case |
| 35 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 33 mistress | nmod |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 see | nsubj |
| 37 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 everything | acl:relcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 mistress | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 mistress | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | infinitive | madam | with the Sheep = sheep | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Sheep | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | offer in a quote | present | the Sheep = sheep | a hiding place | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal place=Theme | |||
| 4 | know in a quote | future | you | a hiding place | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | future | you | mistress | of everything | tree rules | |||
| 6 | see in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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