The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 106
A hundred times she asked Bellissima if anything was the matter with her; but she always said that there was nothing.
Who acts: queen, anything, nothing · What happens: ask, be, say · To what, where: Bellissima, matter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, anything, nothing), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 times | det |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 times | nummod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Bellissima | Bellissima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | iobj |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 matter | mark |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 matter | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 matter | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 matter | det |
| 11 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | ccomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 matter | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 17 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 18 said | advmod |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 asked | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 was | mark |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 was | expl |
| 21 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | ccomp |
| 22 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 21 was | nsubj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | queen | Bellissima | time | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bellissima=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is a a condition, not said to happen | past | anything | the matter | with queen | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | queen | always property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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