The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 69
“This signifies nothing,” says Blue Beard; “you must die”; then, taking hold of her hair with one hand, and lifting up the sword with the other, he was going to take off her head.
Who acts: This, Blue Beard, you, beard · What happens: signify, say, die, take, lift up, go · To what, where: nothing, hold, sword, head, hair · 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 (This, Blue Beard, you, 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 | _ | 3 signifies | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 signifies | nsubj |
| 3 | signifies | signify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 signifies | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 signifies | conj |
| 8 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Beard | amod |
| 9 | Beard | Beard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 die | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 die | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 die | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 die | aux |
| 14 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 says | ccomp |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 die | punct |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 signifies | punct |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 signifies | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 taking | punct |
| 19 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 signifies | advcl |
| 20 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 taking | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 hair | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hair | nmod:poss |
| 23 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hold | nmod |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 hand | case |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 hand | nummod |
| 26 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 taking | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 lifting | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 lifting | cc |
| 29 | lifting | lift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 taking | conj |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 lifting | compound:prt |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 sword | det |
| 32 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lifting | obj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 other | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 other | det |
| 35 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 lifting | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 going | punct |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 going | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 going | aux |
| 39 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 taking | conj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 take | mark |
| 41 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 going | xcomp |
| 42 | off | off | ADP | _ | 41 take | compound:prt |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 head | nmod:poss |
| 44 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 take | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 signifies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | signify in a quote | present | This | nothing | then | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Blue Beard | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | die in a quote | must | you | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | take | gerund | This not said here | hold of happiness's hair | with one hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | |||
| 5 | lift up | gerund | This not said here | the sword | with the other | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | |||
| 6 | go | past · progressive | beard | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | take off | to-infinitive | beard not said here | happiness's head | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 8 | hold | happiness's hair | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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