The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 66

“In which of these shall I dip you?” he asked; and she made haste to answer: “In the liquid gold,” for she was no more modest than she was good and kind.

Who acts: father, Lizina · What happens: dip, ask, make, answer, not be, be · To what, where: you, haste, liquid gold · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, Lizina), 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	_	8 dip	punct
2	In	in	ADP	_	3 which	case
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 dip	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 these	case
5	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 which	nmod
6	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 dip	aux
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 dip	nsubj
8	dip	dip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 asked	ccomp
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 dip	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 dip	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 dip	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 asked	nsubj
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 made	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 made	nsubj
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 asked	ccomp
18	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 answer	mark
20	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 haste	acl
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 modest	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	34 modest	punct
23	In	in	ADP	_	26 gold	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 gold	det
25	liquid	liquid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 gold	amod
26	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 modest	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gold	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	34 modest	punct
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	34 modest	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 modest	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 modest	cop
32	no	no	ADV	_	34 modest	advmod
33	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 modest	amod
34	modest	modest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 made	xcomp
35	than	than	SCONJ	_	38 good	mark
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 good	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 good	cop
38	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 modest	advcl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 kind	cc
40	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 good	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	dip in a quote	shall	father		you			vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent which=Theme you=Destination
2	ask speech: ask	past	father					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make	past	Lizina	haste				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product
4	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive	Lizina not said here	haste not said here				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not is	past	Lizina			the liquid gold	modest property	tree rules
6	is	past	Lizina				good property	tree rules
7	be		Lizina not said here					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 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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