The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 44
“You must die, madam,” said he, “and that presently.”
Who acts: You, beard · What happens: die, say · To what, where: madam · 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 (You, 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 | _ | 4 die | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 die | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 die | aux |
| 4 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 madam | punct |
| 6 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 die | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 die | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 die | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 that | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 that | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 that | cc |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 said | nsubj |
| 15 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 14 that | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die in a quote | must | You | madam | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | 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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