The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 52
“Oh! well,” he replied, “out of charity I will take her; but be sure and don’t forget that she is mine.”
Who acts: Dwarf, queen · What happens: reply, take, be, not forget · To what, where: queen, charity, Dwarf · 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 (Dwarf, 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 replied | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 replied | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 Oh | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 charity | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 charity | case |
| 13 | charity | charity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obl |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 take | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | aux |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 replied | ccomp |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 sure | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 sure | cc |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 sure | cop |
| 21 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 replied | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 forget | cc |
| 23 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 25 forget | aux |
| 24 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 forget | advmod |
| 25 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 sure | conj |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 mine | mark |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 mine | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 mine | cop |
| 29 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 forget | parataxis |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 forget | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Dwarf | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | take in a quote | future | Dwarf | queen | charity | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent she=Theme out charity=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | infinitive | sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not forget in a quote | infinitive · do-support | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | queen | Dwarf | 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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