The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 48
At this Bolgolam rose up in fury, wondering how the secretary dared desire to preserve the life of a traitor; and the treasurer, pointing out the expense of keeping you, also urged your death.
Who acts: secretary, treasurer, expense, your · What happens: rise up, wonder, dare, preserve, point out, keep · To what, where: Bolgolam, desire, life, expense, you, death · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (secretary, treasurer, expense, your), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 Bolgolam | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Bolgolam | det |
| 3 | Bolgolam | Bolgolam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | obl |
| 4 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 rose | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 fury | case |
| 7 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wondering | punct |
| 9 | wondering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 rose | advcl |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 dared | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 secretary | det |
| 12 | secretary | secretary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dared | nsubj |
| 13 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wondering | ccomp |
| 14 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dared | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 preserve | mark |
| 16 | preserve | preserve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 dared | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 life | det |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 preserve | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 traitor | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 traitor | det |
| 21 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 life | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 treasurer | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 treasurer | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 treasurer | det |
| 25 | treasurer | treasurer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 pointing | punct |
| 27 | pointing | point | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 treasurer | acl |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 pointing | compound:prt |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 expense | det |
| 30 | expense | expense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pointing | obj |
| 31 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 32 keeping | mark |
| 32 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 expense | acl |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 keeping | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 urged | punct |
| 35 | also | also | ADV | _ | 36 urged | advmod |
| 36 | urged | urge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 treasurer | acl |
| 37 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 death | nmod:poss |
| 38 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 urged | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise up | past | this Bolgolam | in fury | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bolgolam=Location | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | dare | past | the secretary | desire | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent desire=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | preserve | to-infinitive | the secretary not said here | the life of a traitor | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | point out | gerund | the treasurer not said here | the expense | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expense=Patient | ||||
| 6 | keep | gerund | the expense not said here | you | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 7 | urge | participle | the treasurer not said here | your death | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Recipient | ||||
| 8 | die | your | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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