The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 59
For if her shadow stays by her more closely than I do I shall be surprised.”
Who acts: shadow, I, Bellissima · What happens: stay, do, be, shadow
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 (shadow, I, 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 stays | mark |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 stays | mark |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 shadow | nmod:poss |
| 4 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stays | nsubj |
| 5 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 surprised | advcl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stays | obl |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 closely | advmod |
| 9 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 5 stays | advmod |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 closely | advcl |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 surprised | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 surprised | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 surprised | cop |
| 16 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 surprised | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay a condition, not said to happen | present | Bellissima's shadow | by Bellissima; closely property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by she=Location | ||||
| 2 | do | present | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | shall | I | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | shadow | Bellissima | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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