The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 94
“At least,” said he, “you have the satisfaction of dying unmarried.
Who acts: Dwarf, you, satisfaction · What happens: say, have, die, unmarry · To what, where: least, satisfaction · 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, you, satisfaction), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 least | case |
| 3 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 said | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 least | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 least | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 satisfaction | det |
| 13 | satisfaction | satisfaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 dying | mark |
| 15 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 satisfaction | acl |
| 16 | unmarried | unmarry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 dying | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Dwarf | least | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | you | the satisfaction | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent satisfaction=Patient | ||||
| 3 | die in a quote | gerund | the satisfaction not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | unmarry in a quote | participle | the satisfaction not said here | 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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