The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 104
“Get there I must,” said she; “and if there is any way of going I will; and I have no fear, no matter how fast you go.”
Who acts: girl, way, you · What happens: get, say, be, go, have · To what, where: way, fear · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, way, you), 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 | _ | 2 Get | punct |
| 2 | Get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Get | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 must | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 Get | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Get | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Get | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 way | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 way | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 way | cc |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 is | mark |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 is | expl |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 way | cop |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 way | det |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 going | mark |
| 19 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 way | acl |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 will | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 going | aux |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 have | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 have | cc |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 have | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 way | conj |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 27 fear | det |
| 27 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 have | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 matter | punct |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 matter | det |
| 30 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 way | appos |
| 31 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 fast | advmod |
| 32 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 go | advmod |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 go | nsubj |
| 34 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 matter | acl:relcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 matter | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | infinitive | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | any way | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | future | any way not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | girl | no fear | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient | ||||
| 6 | go in a quote | present | you | fast property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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