The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 32
“I must certainly have left it above upon the table,” said she.
Who acts: floor · What happens: leave, say · To what, where: closet, table · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (floor), 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 left | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 left | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | aux |
| 4 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 6 left | advmod |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 left | aux |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 said | ccomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 left | obj |
| 8 | above | above | ADV | _ | 6 left | advmod |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 table | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 table | det |
| 11 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 left | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 left | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave in a quote | must · perfect | floor | closet | the table | above, certainly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon table=Location | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | floor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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