The Blue Fairy Book, Toads and Diamonds, sentence 25
“It would be a very fine sight indeed,” said this ill-bred minx, “to see me go draw water.”
Who acts: water, bred minx · What happens: be, say, breed, see, go, draw · To what, where: fine sight, bred minx, water · 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 (water, bred minx), 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 | _ | 8 sight | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sight | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 sight | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sight | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sight | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 fine | advmod |
| 7 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sight | amod |
| 8 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 9 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 8 sight | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sight | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 sight | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 minx | det |
| 14 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bred | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 ill | punct |
| 16 | bred | breed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 minx | amod |
| 17 | minx | minx | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 see | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 see | punct |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 see | mark |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 see | obj |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 see | xcomp |
| 24 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 go | xcomp |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 draw | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 see | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | would | water | a fine sight | indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | this bred minx | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | breed | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | this bred minx = minx | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go in a quote | infinitive | this bred minx = minx not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | draw in a quote | infinitive | this bred minx = minx not said here | water | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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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