The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 74
“And what do you want with her, pretty one?” said the little monster, “for I am a friend of hers, and, for the matter of that, I am quite as clever as she is.”
Who acts: you, little monster, Bellissima, that · What happens: want, pretty, say, be, matter · To what, where: one · 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 (you, little monster, Bellissima, that), 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 | _ | 6 want | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 want | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 want | obj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 want | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 want | nsubj |
| 6 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 want | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pretty | punct |
| 10 | pretty | pretty | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 want | conj |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 pretty | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 want | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 want | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 monster | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 monster | amod |
| 17 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 friend | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 friend | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 friend | case |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 friend | nsubj |
| 22 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 friend | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 friend | det |
| 24 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | ccomp |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 hers | case |
| 26 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 friend | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 matter | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 matter | cc |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 matter | punct |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 matter | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 matter | det |
| 32 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | parataxis |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 that | case |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 matter | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 clever | punct |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 clever | nsubj |
| 37 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 clever | cop |
| 38 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 40 clever | advmod |
| 39 | as | as | ADV | _ | 40 clever | advmod |
| 40 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 matter | conj |
| 41 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 43 is | mark |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 is | nsubj |
| 43 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 clever | advcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 matter | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 matter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present · do-support | you | with Bellissima | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pretty in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | the little monster | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the little monster = monster | for a friend; of Bellissima | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | the little monster = monster | clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be in a quote | present | Bellissima | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | matter in a quote | that | nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=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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