The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 31
“What shall I do?” she cried; “I shall be eaten up,” and being too frightened to run a single step, she began to cry, and leaned against the tree under which she had been asleep.
Who acts: queen · What happens: do, cry, eat up, be, run, begin · To what, where: queen, single step, tree · 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), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | parataxis |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 eaten | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 eaten | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 eaten | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 eaten | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 eaten | aux:pass |
| 15 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 cried | parataxis |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 eaten | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 eaten | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 eaten | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 frightened | cc |
| 20 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 frightened | cop |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 22 frightened | advmod |
| 22 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eaten | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 run | mark |
| 24 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 frightened | csubj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 step | det |
| 26 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 step | amod |
| 27 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 run | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 began | punct |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 began | nsubj |
| 30 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | parataxis |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 cry | mark |
| 32 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 began | xcomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 leaned | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 leaned | cc |
| 35 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 began | conj |
| 36 | against | against | ADP | _ | 38 tree | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 tree | det |
| 38 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 leaned | obl |
| 39 | under | under | ADP | _ | 40 which | case |
| 40 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 asleep | obl |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 asleep | nsubj |
| 42 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 asleep | aux |
| 43 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 44 asleep | cop |
| 44 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 tree | acl:relcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | shall | queen | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | queen | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | eat up in a quote | shall · passive | queen | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is | gerund | frightened property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | run | to-infinitive | a single step | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme step=Trajectory | |||||
| 6 | begin | past | queen | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | queen not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | learn | past | queen not said here | against the tree | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | is | past · perfect | queen | the tree | asleep 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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