The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 37
“I do not know,” cried the poor woman, paler than death.
Who acts: poor woman · What happens: not know, cry · 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 (poor woman), 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 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 cried | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 woman | det |
| 10 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 woman | amod |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 paler | punct |
| 13 | paler | pale | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 woman | conj |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 death | case |
| 15 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 paler | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | the poor woman = woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the poor woman | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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