The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 98
“Look at me well, Princess, before you give me your word,” said he.
Who acts: you, Dwarf, your · What happens: look, give, say, word · To what, where: Princess, word, 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 (you, Dwarf, your), 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 | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 2 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Look | obl |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 Look | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Princess | punct |
| 7 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Look | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 9 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 11 give | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 give | nsubj |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Look | parataxis |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 give | iobj |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 word | nmod:poss |
| 14 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | infinitive | Princess | at Dwarf; well property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | present | you | your word | Dwarf | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient word=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Dwarf | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | word in a quote | your | nom word «communication 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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