The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 29
“We must not waste time in talking,” said she.
Who acts: We, Princess · What happens: not waste, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Princess), 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 waste | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 waste | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 waste | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 waste | advmod |
| 5 | waste | waste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waste | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 talking | case |
| 8 | talking | talking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 time | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 waste | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 waste | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not waste in a quote | must | We | time | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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