The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 31
So saying, she quickly collected a bundle of sea-weed, and, blowing it three times, she said:
Who acts: Fairy · What happens: say, collect, blow · To what, where: bundle · 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 (Fairy), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 collected | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 collected | nsubj |
| 5 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 6 collected | advmod |
| 6 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 said | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bundle | det |
| 8 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 collected | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 weed | case |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 weed | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 sea | punct |
| 12 | weed | weed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bundle | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 blowing | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 blowing | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 blowing | punct |
| 16 | blowing | blow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 collected | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 blowing | obj |
| 18 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 times | nummod |
| 19 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 blowing | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 collected | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 said | nsubj |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | Fairy not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | collect | past | Fairy | a bundle of sea weed | quickly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme | |||
| 3 | blow | gerund | Fairy not said here | bundle | time | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Fairy | 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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