The Blue Fairy Book, Toads and Diamonds, sentence 30
“Am I come hither,” said the proud, saucy one, “to serve you with water, pray?
Who acts: Am, proud saucy one · What happens: come, say, serve, pray · To what, where: you · 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 (Am, proud saucy one), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Am | a.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 one | det |
| 10 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 one | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 proud | punct |
| 12 | saucy | saucy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 one | amod |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 serve | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 serve | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 serve | mark |
| 17 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | parataxis |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 serve | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 serve | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pray | punct |
| 22 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 serve | conj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present | Am | hither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the proud saucy one | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | serve in a quote | to-infinitive | you | with water | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Recipient with water=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pray in a quote | infinitive | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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