The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 8
“Not till my stepmother is dead,” answered she, “for she has brought misery to all that came near her.”
Who acts: stepmother · What happens: not be, answer, bring, come · To what, where: misery, all · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother), 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 | _ | 7 dead | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 dead | advmod |
| 3 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 7 dead | mark |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dead | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dead | cop |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 answered | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dead | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 dead | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 came | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 came | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 came | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 brought | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 brought | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 brought | aux |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 came | advcl |
| 18 | misery | misery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 all | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 brought | obl |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 answered | ccomp |
| 23 | near | near | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 came | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | my stepmother | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | bring in a quote | present · perfect | stepmother | misery | all | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent misery=Theme to all=Destination | |||
| 4 | come in a quote | past | stepmother | near Lineik | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near she=Location |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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