The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 45

“Since I must die,” answered she (looking upon him with her eyes all bathed in tears), “give me some little time to say my prayers.”

Who acts: I, you, lady, my · What happens: die, answer, look, bath, give, say · To what, where: eyes, tears, me, prayers · 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 (I, you, lady, my), 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	_	8 answered	punct
2	Since	since	SCONJ	_	5 die	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 die	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 die	aux
5	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 answered	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 die	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 die	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 give	advcl
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 looking	nsubj
10	(	(	PUNCT	_	11 looking	punct
11	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 answered	ccomp
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 looking	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 eyes	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 eyes	nmod:poss
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 looking	obl
17	all	all	ADV	_	18 bathed	advmod
18	bathed	bath	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 eyes	acl
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 tears	case
20	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 bathed	obl
21	)	)	PUNCT	_	11 looking	punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 give	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 give	punct
24	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 give	iobj
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 time	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 time	amod
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 give	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 say	mark
30	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 time	acl
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 prayers	nmod:poss
32	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 say	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 give	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die in a quote	must	I						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	answer speech: assert	past	you not said here						tree rules
3	look	gerund	lady					upon beard; with lady's eyes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon he=Theme
4	bath	participle		lady's eyes not said here		tears		all property	tree rules
5	give in a quote	imperative	you not said here		me		time		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
6	say speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	my prayers					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic
7	pray in a quote		my						nom prayer «act intransitive»: 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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