The Blue Fairy Book, Toads and Diamonds, sentence 21

“In good faith,” cried the mother, “I must send my child thither.

Who acts: mother · What happens: cry, send · To what, where: good faith, child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Toads and Diamonds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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	_	7 cried	punct
2	In	in	ADP	_	4 faith	case
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 faith	amod
4	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 faith	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 faith	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mother	det
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 send	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 send	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 send	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 send	aux
14	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cried	conj
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 child	nmod:poss
16	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 send	obj
17	thither	thither	ADV	_	14 send	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the mother			good faith			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in faith=Location
2	send in a quote	must	the mother = mother	my child				thither property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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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