The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 146
“It was to preserve you, master, not to ruin you,” answered Morgiana.
Who acts: dagger, Morgiana · What happens: be, not ruin, answer · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dagger, Morgiana), 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 preserve | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 preserve | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 preserve | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 preserve | mark |
| 5 | preserve | preserve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 answered | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 preserve | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 master | punct |
| 8 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 preserve | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ruin | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 ruin | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 ruin | mark |
| 12 | ruin | ruin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 preserve | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 ruin | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 preserve | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 preserve | punct |
| 16 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Morgiana | Morgiana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 answered | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | dagger | preserve property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not ruin in a quote | to-infinitive | dagger not said here | you | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | Morgiana | tree rules |
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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