The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 48

“Sister Anne” (for that was her name), “go up, I beg you, upon the top of the tower, and look if my brothers are not coming over; they promised me that they would come to-day, and if you see them, give them a sign to make haste.”

Who acts: that, lady, brothers, you · What happens: be, go up, beg, look, not come over, promise · To what, where: you, lady, brothers, sign, haste

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 (that, lady, brothers, you), 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	_	3 Anne	punct
2	Sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Anne	compound
3	Anne	Anne	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 Anne	punct
5	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 name	punct
6	for	for	ADP	_	10 name	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 name	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 name	cop
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 name	nmod:poss
10	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Anne	appos
11	)	)	PUNCT	_	10 name	punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct
14	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 Anne	parataxis
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 go	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 beg	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 beg	nsubj
18	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 go	parataxis
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 beg	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 top	punct
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	23 top	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 top	det
23	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 beg	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 tower	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tower	det
26	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 top	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 look	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 look	cc
29	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 beg	parataxis
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 coming	mark
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 brothers	nmod:poss
32	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 coming	nsubj
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 coming	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 coming	advmod
35	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 look	advcl
36	over	over	ADV	_	35 coming	advmod
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 promised	punct
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 promised	nsubj
39	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 go	advcl
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 promised	iobj
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 come	mark
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 come	nsubj
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 come	aux
44	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 promised	xcomp
45	to	to	ADP	_	47 day	case
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 to	punct
47	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 come	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 give	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 give	cc
50	if	if	SCONJ	_	52 see	mark
51	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	52 see	nsubj
52	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 give	advcl
53	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 see	obj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 see	punct
55	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 go	conj
56	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 give	iobj
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 sign	det
58	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 give	obj
59	to	to	PART	_	60 make	mark
60	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 give	advcl
61	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 make	obj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 Anne	punct
63	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 Anne	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that				for Anne's name	tree rules
2	go up in a quote	infinitive						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	beg speech: request in a quote	present	lady		you		upon the top of the tower	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	look in a quote	infinitive						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	not come over a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · progressive	my brothers				over property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	promise speech: promise in a quote	past	brothers = brother		lady			vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
7	come not said to happen, in a quote	would	brothers = brother			day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	see a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	brothers = brother				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
9	give in a quote	infinitive		a sign	brothers = brother			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient sign=Theme
10	make in a quote	to-infinitive		haste				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product

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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