The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 55

“One moment longer, if you please,” said his wife, and then she cried out very softly, “Anne, sister Anne, dost thou see anybody coming?”

Who acts: wife, sister, anybody · What happens: say, cry out, do, see, come · To what, where: Anne, thou · 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 (wife, sister, anybody), 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	_	11 said	punct
2	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 moment	nummod
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 longer	obl:unmarked
4	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 said	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 longer	punct
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 you	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 longer	advcl
8	please	please	INTJ	_	4 longer	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 longer	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 longer	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wife	nmod:poss
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cried	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 cried	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 cried	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 cried	nsubj
18	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 cried	compound:prt
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 softly	advmod
21	softly	softly	ADV	_	18 cried	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Anne	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 Anne	punct
24	Anne	Anne	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 cried	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Anne	punct
26	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Anne	compound
27	Anne	Anne	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Anne	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 dost	punct
29	dost	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 cried	conj
30	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	29 dost	obj
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 dost	xcomp
32	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	33 coming	nsubj
33	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 see	xcomp
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	33 coming	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	beard's wife			long property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	cry out speech: express	past	sister	Anne and sister Anne	then	softly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do in a quote	present	sister not said here	thou			tree rules
4	see in a quote	infinitive	sister not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	come in a quote	gerund	anybody				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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