The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 89
“I really cannot follow you,” said Miranda, “for I am too tired to walk another step.”
Who acts: Miranda · What happens: not follow, say, be, walk · To what, where: you, step · 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 (Miranda), 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 follow | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 follow | nsubj |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 follow | advmod |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 follow | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 follow | advmod |
| 6 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 follow | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 follow | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 follow | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Miranda | Miranda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tired | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 tired | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 tired | case |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 tired | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 tired | cop |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 tired | advmod |
| 18 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 walk | mark |
| 20 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 tired | advcl |
| 21 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 step | det |
| 22 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 walk | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not follow in a quote | can | Miranda | you | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Miranda | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Miranda | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | walk in a quote | to-infinitive | Miranda not said here | another step | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme step=Trajectory |
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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