The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 11
As she drank she murmured: “Oh! heaven, what am I to do?” and the three drops of blood replied:
Who acts: Princess, I · What happens: drink, murmur, do, reply · To what, where: heaven, blood · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, I), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 drank | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drank | nsubj |
| 3 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 murmured | nsubj |
| 5 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drank | ccomp |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 heaven | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 heaven | punct |
| 8 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 10 heaven | discourse |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 Oh | punct |
| 10 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drank | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 do | obj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 heaven | appos |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 drops | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 drops | det |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 drops | nummod |
| 22 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 heaven | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 blood | case |
| 24 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 drops | nmod |
| 25 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 blood | acl |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 drank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past | Princess | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | murmur speech: other | past | Princess | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | I | heaven and the three drops of blood | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | reply speech: ask | participle | blood not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=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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