The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 21
“I am so happy,” Bellissima answered: “do leave me in peace, madam.
Who acts: Bellissima · What happens: be, answer, leave · To what, where: Bellissima, peace · 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), 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 happy | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 happy | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 happy | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 happy | advmod |
| 5 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 answered | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 happy | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 happy | punct |
| 8 | Bellissima | Bellissima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | nsubj |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 leave | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 leave | punct |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 leave | aux |
| 13 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 answered | ccomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 leave | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 peace | case |
| 16 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leave | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 madam | punct |
| 18 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 peace | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Bellissima | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Bellissima | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | leave in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Bellissima | peace and madam | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme in peace=Location |
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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