The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 21
Now I don’t budge from the spot till you have opened the door.”
Who acts: I · What happens: not budge, open · To what, where: spot, you
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 budge | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 budge | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 budge | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 budge | advmod |
| 5 | budge | budge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 spot | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 spot | det |
| 8 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 budge | obl |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 12 opened | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 opened | aux |
| 12 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 budge | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 door | det |
| 14 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 opened | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 budge | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 budge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not budge | present · do-support | I | the spot | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | open | present · perfect · passive | you | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme door=Destination |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/41/21/