The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 18
“Bellissima,” she said, “I do wish you would not be so proud.
Who acts: Bellissima, you · What happens: say, wish, not be · 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 (Bellissima, 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 | _ | 2 Bellissima | punct |
| 2 | Bellissima | Bellissima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bellissima | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bellissima | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wish | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 wish | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 wish | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 wish | aux |
| 11 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 proud | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 proud | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 proud | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 proud | cop |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 proud | advmod |
| 17 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wish | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Bellissima | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | wish in a quote | present · do-support | Bellissima | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | would | you | proud property | tree rules |
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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