The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 21
Coming to the closet-door, she made a stop for some time, thinking upon her husband’s orders, and considering what unhappiness might attend her if she was disobedient; but the temptation was so strong she could not overcome it.
Who acts: manner, unhappiness, temptation, husband · What happens: come, make, think, consider, attend, be · To what, where: closet door, stop, manner, temptation
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (manner, unhappiness, temptation, husband), 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 | Coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 made | advcl |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 door | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 4 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 door | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 closet | punct |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Coming | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Coming | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 made | nsubj |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stop | det |
| 11 | stop | stop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thinking | punct |
| 16 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 made | advcl |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 orders | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 husband | nmod:poss |
| 19 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 orders | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 husband | case |
| 21 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 thinking | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 considering | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 considering | cc |
| 24 | considering | consider | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 thinking | conj |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 28 attend | obj |
| 26 | unhappiness | unhappiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 attend | nsubj |
| 27 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 attend | aux |
| 28 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 considering | ccomp |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 attend | obj |
| 30 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 disobedient | mark |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 disobedient | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 disobedient | cop |
| 33 | disobedient | disobedient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 attend | advcl |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 strong | punct |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 strong | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 temptation | det |
| 37 | temptation | temptation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 strong | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 strong | cop |
| 39 | so | so | ADV | _ | 40 strong | advmod |
| 40 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 made | parataxis |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 overcome | nsubj |
| 42 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 overcome | aux |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 overcome | advmod |
| 44 | overcome | overcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 strong | parataxis |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 overcome | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | manner not said here | the closet door | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | make | past | manner | a stop | time | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stop=Product | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | manner not said here | upon manner's husband's orders | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | consider | gerund | manner not said here | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | attend | might | unhappiness | manner | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | manner | disobedient property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is | past | the temptation | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | not overcome | could | manner | temptation | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 9 | order | manner's husband | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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