The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 89

‘Now,’ he said to the lady, ‘all we want is a drop of the maiden’s blood.’

Who acts: man, we, all · What happens: say, want, be · To what, where: lady, drop · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, we, all), 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 said	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 lady	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lady	det
9	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 drop	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 drop	punct
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 drop	nsubj
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 want	nsubj
14	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 all	acl:relcl
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 drop	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 drop	det
17	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 blood	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 maiden	det
20	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 blood	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 maiden	case
22	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 drop	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	man		the lady	now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to lady=Recipient
2	want	present	we					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is a	present	all	a drop			of the maiden's blood	tree rules

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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