The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 62
“Don’t you see that cursed fish is trying to drag me in?”
Who acts: you, cursed fish · What happens: not do, see, curse, try, drag · To what, where: dwarf · 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, cursed fish), 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 | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 Do | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Do | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 fish | det |
| 7 | cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 fish | amod |
| 8 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trying | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 trying | aux |
| 10 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 see | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 drag | mark |
| 12 | drag | drag | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 trying | xcomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 drag | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 drag | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | curse in a quote | participle | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | try in a quote | present · progressive | that cursed fish | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | drag not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | that cursed fish not said here | the dwarf = dwarf | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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