The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 95
“Not so,” replied the Yellow Dwarf; “you are a rival of whom I am too much afraid; you shall not see our marriage.”
Who acts: Yellow Dwarf, you, our · What happens: reply, be, not see, marry · To what, where: rival, marriage · 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 (Yellow Dwarf, you, our), 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 | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 so | advmod |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 replied | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 so | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Dwarf | det |
| 8 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Dwarf | amod |
| 9 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 rival | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 rival | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 rival | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 rival | det |
| 15 | rival | rival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 whom | case |
| 17 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 rival | nmod |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 afraid | nsubj |
| 19 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 afraid | cop |
| 20 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 much | advmod |
| 21 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 afraid | amod |
| 22 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 whom | acl:relcl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 see | punct |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 see | nsubj |
| 25 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 see | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 see | advmod |
| 27 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 replied | parataxis |
| 28 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 29 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 see | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 see | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Yellow Dwarf | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | you | a rival | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the Yellow Dwarf = dwarf | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not see in a quote | shall | you | our marriage | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer marriage=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | marry in a quote | our | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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