The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 54

“Don’t be so impatient,” said Snow-white, “I’ll see you get help,” and taking her scissors out of her pocket she cut off the end of his beard.

Who acts: I, you, two · What happens: be, say, see, get, take, cut off · To what, where: you, help, scissors, pocket, end · 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 (I, you, two), 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 impatient	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 impatient	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 Do	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 impatient	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 impatient	advmod
6	impatient	impatient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 impatient	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 impatient	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 white	obl
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Snow	punct
12	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 see	nsubj
16	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 see	aux
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 see	obj
19	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 see	xcomp
20	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 get	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 get	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 taking	cc
24	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	conj
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 scissors	nmod:poss
26	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 taking	obj
27	out	out	ADP	_	30 pocket	case
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 pocket	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 pocket	nmod:poss
30	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 taking	obl
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 cut	nsubj
32	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 pocket	acl:relcl
33	off	off	ADP	_	35 end	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 end	det
35	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cut	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 beard	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 beard	nmod:poss
38	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 end	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	infinitive · do-support				impatient property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see in a quote	future	I	you			tree rules
4	get in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	help			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus
5	take	gerund		two's scissors	two's pocket		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent scissors=Theme out pocket=Initial_Location
6	cut off	past	two	the end of end's beard			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector end=Eventuality

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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