The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 120
‘“Bless me,” said she, “what will you do now?
Who acts: you, woman · What happens: bless, say, do · To what, where: woman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, woman), 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 | _ | 3 Bless | punct |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Bless | punct |
| 3 | Bless | bless | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 Bless | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Bless | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Bless | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Bless | conj |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 do | obj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 do | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 Bless | conj |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 do | advmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 Bless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bless in a quote | imperative | you not said here | woman | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | future | you | now | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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