The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 60
“Yes, you may do that,” said he; “but there is no way thither.
Who acts: you, castle, way · What happens: do, say, be · To what, where: that · 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, castle, way), 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 | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 do | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | parataxis |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 do | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 is | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 is | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 is | cc |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 is | expl |
| 16 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 way | det |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 is | nsubj |
| 19 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 16 is | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | may | you | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | castle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | no way | there | thither property | vn exist-47.1 «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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