The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 61
“My poor master,” she said, “can neither eat nor speak, and no one knows what his distemper is.”
Who acts: Morgiana, one, distemper, Cassim · What happens: say, eat, speak, know, be, distemper · 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 (Morgiana, one, distemper, Cassim), 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 | _ | 4 master | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 master | nmod:poss |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 master | amod |
| 4 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 master | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 master | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 eat | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 eat | punct |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 eat | aux |
| 12 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 13 eat | advmod |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 15 speak | cc |
| 15 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 eat | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 knows | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 knows | cc |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 knows | nsubj |
| 20 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 knows | ccomp |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 distemper | nmod:poss |
| 23 | distemper | distemper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 what | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 what | cop |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 knows | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Morgiana | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | eat in a quote | can | neither property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other in a quote | infinitive | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | know in a quote | present | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | Cassim's distemper | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | distemper in a quote | Cassim | nom distemper «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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