The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 71
“No, no,” said he, “recommend thyself to God,” and was just ready to strike...
Who acts: beard · What happens: say, recommend, be, strike · To what, where: thyself, God · 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 (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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 No | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 recommend | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 recommend | punct |
| 11 | recommend | recommend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 11 recommend | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 God | case |
| 14 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 recommend | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 recommend | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ready | cc |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 ready | cop |
| 19 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 ready | advmod |
| 20 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 strike | mark |
| 22 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 ready | xcomp |
| 23 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | beard | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | recommend in a quote | infinitive | thyself | God | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thyself=Topic to god=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | beard not said here | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | strike | to-infinitive | beard not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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