The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 39
“Ah!” interrupted the King of the Gold Mines, “if Bellissima forgets me, and consents to marry him, I shall break my heart.”
Who acts: Bellissima · What happens: interrupt, forget, marry, break · To what, where: King, Mermaid, Bellissima, heart · 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 (Bellissima), 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 interrupted | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 interrupted | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 5 | interrupted | interrupt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 interrupted | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Mines | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Mines | det |
| 10 | Gold | Gold | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Mines | compound |
| 11 | Mines | Mines | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 King | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 break | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 break | nsubj |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 forgets | mark |
| 15 | Bellissima | Bellissima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 forgets | nsubj |
| 16 | forgets | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 break | advcl |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 forgets | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 consents | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 consents | cc |
| 20 | consents | consent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 forgets | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 marry | mark |
| 22 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 forgets | advcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 marry | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 forgets | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 break | nsubj |
| 26 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 break | aux |
| 27 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 interrupted | ccomp |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 heart | nmod:poss |
| 29 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 break | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 break | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 interrupted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | interrupt | past | the King of the Gold Mines | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | forget a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | Bellissima | Mermaid | consents obl | tree rules | |||
| 3 | marry in a quote | to-infinitive | Bellissima not said here | Bellissima | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 4 | break in a quote | shall | my heart | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heart=Patient |
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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