The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 70
“Ah!” cried the pretended Fairy, “if you have fallen into _her_ hands, you won’t get away until you have married her.
Who acts: pretended Fairy, you · What happens: cry, pretend, fall, not get away, marry · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pretended Fairy, you), 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 | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 cried | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Fairy | det |
| 7 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Fairy | amod |
| 8 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 married | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 married | punct |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 fallen | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 fallen | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 fallen | aux |
| 14 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 get | advcl |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 fallen | obl |
| 16 | _ | _ | ADP | _ | 19 hands | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hands | nmod:poss |
| 18 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hands | amod |
| 19 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fallen | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fallen | punct |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 get | nsubj |
| 22 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 get | aux |
| 23 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 get | advmod |
| 24 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 married | conj |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 get | advmod |
| 26 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 29 married | mark |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 married | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 married | aux |
| 29 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cried | conj |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 married | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the pretended Fairy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pretend | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | fall a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · perfect | you | _ Fairy's _ hands | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not get away in a quote | future | you | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | marry in a quote | present · perfect · passive | you | 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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