The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 50
“Oh! noble sir,” said the Queen in great distress, “do not refuse her.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: say, not refuse · To what, where: queen · 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sir | amod |
| 5 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Oh | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Queen | det |
| 10 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 distress | case |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 distress | amod |
| 13 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Queen | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 refuse | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 refuse | punct |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 refuse | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 refuse | advmod |
| 18 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 refuse | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Queen in great distress | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not refuse in a quote | infinitive · do-support | the Queen in great distress not said here | queen | vn reject-77.2 «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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