The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 3
“Lie quiet,” said she who brought her the china cup, “and get a little sleep if you can.
Who acts: magician, china cup · What happens: lie, say, bring, get · To what, where: china cup, head, little sleep · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician, china cup), 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 Lie | punct |
| 2 | Lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Lie | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lie | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lie | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 brought | nsubj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 brought | nsubj |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 brought | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cup | det |
| 12 | china | china | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cup | compound |
| 13 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 get | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 get | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 get | cc |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 cup | acl:relcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 sleep | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sleep | amod |
| 20 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 get | obj |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 can | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 can | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 get | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie in a quote | infinitive | quiet property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | bring | past | magician | the china cup | head | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination cup=Theme | |||
| 4 | get in a quote | infinitive | the china cup not said here | a little sleep | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sleep=Stimulus |
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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