The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 46
“You stupid, inquisitive goose!” replied the dwarf; “I wanted to split the tree, in order to get little chips of wood for our kitchen fire; those thick logs that serve to make fires for coarse, greedy people like yourselves quite burn up all the little food we need.
Who acts: You, stupid inquisitive goose, thick logs, yourselves, we, our · What happens: goose, reply, want, split, get, serve · To what, where: dwarf, tree, little chips, fires, little food · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, stupid inquisitive goose, thick logs, yourselves), 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 goose | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 goose | nsubj |
| 3 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 goose | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stupid | punct |
| 5 | inquisitive | inquisitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 goose | amod |
| 6 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 goose | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 goose | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dwarf | det |
| 11 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 wanted | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 wanted | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 wanted | nsubj |
| 15 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 split | mark |
| 17 | split | split | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wanted | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 split | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 get | punct |
| 21 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 24 get | mark |
| 22 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 in | fixed |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 get | mark |
| 24 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 split | conj |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 chips | amod |
| 26 | chips | chip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 get | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 wood | case |
| 28 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 chips | nmod |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 fire | case |
| 30 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 fire | nmod:poss |
| 31 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fire | compound |
| 32 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 get | obl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 logs | punct |
| 34 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 36 logs | det |
| 35 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 logs | amod |
| 36 | logs | log | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 replied | obl |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 serve | nsubj |
| 38 | serve | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 logs | acl:relcl |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 make | mark |
| 40 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 serve | advcl |
| 41 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 make | obj |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 people | case |
| 43 | coarse | coarse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 people | amod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 coarse | punct |
| 45 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 people | amod |
| 46 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 fires | nmod |
| 47 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 50 burn | mark |
| 48 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 50 burn | nsubj |
| 49 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 50 burn | advmod |
| 50 | burn | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 people | acl:relcl |
| 51 | up | up | ADP | _ | 50 burn | compound:prt |
| 52 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 55 food | det:predet |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 food | det |
| 54 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 food | amod |
| 55 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 burn | obl |
| 56 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 57 need | nsubj |
| 57 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 55 food | acl:relcl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | goose in a quote | You | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | reply speech: express | past | stupid inquisitive goose | the dwarf | that thick logs obl | tree rules | |||
| 3 | want in a quote | past | stupid inquisitive goose = goose | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | split not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | stupid inquisitive goose = goose not said here | the tree | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | ||||
| 5 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | stupid inquisitive goose = goose not said here | little chips of wood | for our kitchen fire | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent chip=Theme for fire=Source | |||
| 6 | serve in a quote | present | that thick logs | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | that thick logs not said here | fires | for coarse greedy people | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fire=Product for people=Beneficiary | |||
| 8 | burn up in a quote | present | yourselves | all little food | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent people=Theme | ||||
| 9 | need in a quote | present | we | all little food not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme | ||||
| 10 | fire in a quote | our | nom fire «event 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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