The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 32
“Now you do the same,” said the giant, “if you really wish to be thought strong.”
Who acts: you · What happens: do, say, think · To what, where: same, giant · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 do | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 same | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 do | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 giant | det |
| 11 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thought | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 thought | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 wish | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 wish | nsubj |
| 16 | really | really | ADV | _ | 17 wish | advmod |
| 17 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 thought | aux |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 thought | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 thought | aux:pass |
| 20 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | conj |
| 21 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 thought | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | you | the same | now | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the giant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giant=Topic | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | present · passive | strong property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V» |
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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