The Blue Fairy Book, Toads and Diamonds, sentence 33
“You are not over and above mannerly,” answered the Fairy, without putting herself in a passion.
Who acts: You, Fairy · What happens: not be, be, answer, put · To what, where: fairy, passion · 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 (You, Fairy), 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 | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 over | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 over | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 over | advmod |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 11 answered | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 mannerly | cc |
| 7 | above | above | ADP | _ | 8 mannerly | case |
| 8 | mannerly | mannerly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 over | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mannerly | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 mannerly | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Fairy | det |
| 13 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 putting | punct |
| 15 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 16 putting | mark |
| 16 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 answered | advcl |
| 17 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 putting | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 passion | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 passion | det |
| 20 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 putting | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | You | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | You not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the Fairy | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | put | gerund | the Fairy not said here | fairy | a passion | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme in passion=Destination |
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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