The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 66

“God be praised,” replied the poor wife joyfully; “they are my brothers; I will make them a sign, as well as I can, for them to make haste.”

Who acts: poor wife, wives · What happens: praise, reply, be, make · To what, where: God, brothers, wives, haste · 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 (poor wife, wives), 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	_	4 praised	punct
2	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 praised	nsubj:pass
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 praised	aux:pass
4	praised	praise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 replied	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 praised	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 praised	punct
7	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wife	det
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wife	amod
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 replied	obj
11	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	_	10 wife	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 brothers	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 brothers	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 brothers	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 brothers	cop
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 brothers	nmod:poss
17	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 replied	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 make	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 make	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 make	aux
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 replied	parataxis
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 make	obj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 sign	det
24	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 make	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 well	punct
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 well	advmod
27	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 make	advmod
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 can	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 can	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 well	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 make	punct
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	35 make	mark
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 make	nsubj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 make	mark
35	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 make	conj
36	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 make	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 make	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	praise in a quote	infinitive · passive		God		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	reply speech: assert	past	the poor wife			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present	wives = wife	my brothers		tree rules
4	make in a quote	future	the poor wife = wife	wives = wife	well property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary sign=Product
5	make in a quote	to-infinitive	wives = wife	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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