The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 49
“Bellissima is pretty enough, but I don’t particularly want to marry her--you can keep her.”
Who acts: Bellissima, poor Queen, you · What happens: be, not want, marry, keep · To what, where: Bellissima
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, poor Queen, 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 | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | Bellissima | Bellissima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 3 is | advmod |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 4 pretty | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 want | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 want | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 want | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 want | aux |
| 10 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 want | advmod |
| 11 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 12 want | advmod |
| 12 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 is | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 marry | mark |
| 14 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 want | xcomp |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 marry | obj |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 keep | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 keep | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 keep | aux |
| 19 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 marry | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 keep | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | Bellissima | pretty property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not want in a quote | present · do-support | the poor Queen = queen | particularly property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | marry not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the poor Queen = queen not said here | Bellissima | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 4 | keep in a quote | can | you | Bellissima | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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