The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 88

“Do not be unhappy, dear father, but get a doll made, exactly like me, with a string attached to its head, which I can pull for ‘Yes’ and ‘No.’”

Who acts: you, string · What happens: not be, get, make, attach, pull · To what, where: doll, string

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, string), 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	_	5 unhappy	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 unhappy	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 unhappy	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 unhappy	cop
5	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 father	punct
7	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 father	amod
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 unhappy	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 get	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 get	cc
11	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 unhappy	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 doll	det
13	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 get	obj
14	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 doll	acl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 me	punct
16	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	18 me	advmod
17	like	like	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 made	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 string	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 string	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 string	det
22	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 get	parataxis
23	attached	attach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 string	acl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 head	case
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 head	nmod:poss
26	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 attached	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 pull	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 pull	nsubj
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 pull	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 pull	aux
31	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 string	parataxis
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 Yes	case
33	‘	'	PUNCT	_	34 Yes	punct
34	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	31 pull	obj
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	34 Yes	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 No.	cc
37	‘	'	PUNCT	_	38 No.	punct
38	No.	no.	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	34 Yes	conj
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	38 No.	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 pull	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	imperative · do-support	you not said here		unhappy property	tree rules
2	get in a quote	infinitive		a doll		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer doll=Stimulus
3	make in a quote	participle		a doll not said here	like the king = king	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	attach in a quote	participle		a string not said here	to string's head	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to head=Co-Patient
5	pull in a quote	can	a string			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yes=Theme

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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