The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 33
“Fail not to bring it to me presently,” said Blue Beard.
Who acts: Fail, Blue Beard · What happens: not bring, say · To what, where: closet, Blue Beard · 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 (Fail, Blue Beard), 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 | _ | 5 bring | punct |
| 2 | Fail | fail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 bring | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 bring | mark |
| 5 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bring | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 bring | obl |
| 9 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 5 bring | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bring | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bring | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Beard | amod |
| 14 | Beard | Beard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bring in a quote | to-infinitive | Fail | closet | Blue Beard = beard | presently property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Destination | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Blue Beard | 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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