The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 29
“Oh!” replied the bride, “I brought her with me to keep me company on the journey; give the girl something to do, that she may not be idle.”
Who acts: bride · What happens: reply, bring, keep, give, do, not be · To what, where: bride, journey, something · 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 (bride), 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 | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 replied | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bride | det |
| 7 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brought | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 brought | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 brought | nsubj |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 brought | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 brought | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 keep | mark |
| 16 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 brought | advcl |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 keep | obj |
| 18 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 keep | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 journey | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 journey | det |
| 21 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 keep | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 give | punct |
| 23 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 something | det |
| 25 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 something | compound |
| 26 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 give | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 do | mark |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 something | acl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 idle | punct |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 idle | mark |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 idle | nsubj |
| 32 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 idle | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 idle | advmod |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 idle | cop |
| 35 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 give | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the bride | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | past | the bride = bride | bride | with the bride = bride | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | |||
| 3 | keep in a quote | to-infinitive | the bride = bride not said here | the bride = bride | the journey | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme company=Attribute | |||
| 4 | give in a quote | infinitive | something | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | |||||
| 5 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | something not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | not is in a quote | may | bride | idle property | tree rules |
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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