The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 48
“Then, if you have done what your mother wished,” said he, “you have brought great misery on both of us.”
Who acts: you, mother, bear · What happens: do, wish, say, bring · To what, where: great misery, both · 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 (you, mother, bear), 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 done | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 done | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Then | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 done | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 done | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 done | aux |
| 7 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 said | ccomp |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 wished | obj |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wished | nsubj |
| 11 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 done | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 done | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 done | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 brought | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 brought | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 brought | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 brought | aux |
| 20 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 said | ccomp |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 misery | amod |
| 22 | misery | misery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brought | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 both | case |
| 24 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 brought | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 us | case |
| 26 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 both | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 brought | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · perfect | you | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wish in a quote | past | your mother | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | bear | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | bring in a quote | present · perfect | you | great misery | both | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent misery=Theme on both=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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