The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 64
“One moment longer,” said his wife, and then she cried out: “Anne, sister Anne, dost thou see nobody coming?”
Who acts: wife, unhappiness, Anne, nobody · What happens: say, cry out, see, come · 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, unhappiness, Anne, nobody), 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 | _ | 7 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 | 7 said | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 longer | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 longer | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cried | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cried | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 cried | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 cried | nsubj |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 see | advcl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 cried | compound:prt |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 Anne | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Anne | punct |
| 18 | Anne | Anne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 see | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Anne | punct |
| 20 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Anne | compound |
| 21 | Anne | Anne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Anne | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dost | punct |
| 23 | dost | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 see | aux |
| 24 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 see | nsubj |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 26 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 27 coming | nsubj |
| 27 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 see | xcomp |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 27 coming | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | beard's wife | long property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | unhappiness | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | present · do-support | Anne and sister Anne | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | come in a quote | gerund | nobody | 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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