The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 63

“Will you not come down?” cried Blue Beard

Who acts: you, Blue Beard · What happens: not come down, 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 (you, Blue 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	_	5 come	punct
2	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 come	advmod
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cried	parataxis
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Beard	amod
11	Beard	Beard	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obj

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come down in a quote	future	you					down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	Blue Beard						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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