The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 17
“I am pretty sure that it will come again,” thought Cinderlad; but no, it did not.
Who acts: Cinderlad, death · What happens: be, come, think, not do · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cinderlad, death), 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 | _ | 5 sure | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 sure | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sure | cop |
| 4 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 5 sure | advmod |
| 5 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 come | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 come | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sure | ccomp |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sure | punct |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sure | acl |
| 14 | Cinderlad | Cinderlad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 thought | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 did | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 did | cc |
| 17 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 20 did | discourse |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 did | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 did | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sure | parataxis |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 did | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Cinderlad | pretty, sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | future | death | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Cinderlad | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not do | past | death | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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