The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 77

"It would be a very fine sight indeed," said this ill-bred minx, "to see me go draw water!"

Who acts: water, bred minx · What happens: be, say, breed, see, go, draw · To what, where: fine sight, bred minx, water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, bred minx), 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 sight	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sight	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 sight	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 sight	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sight	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 fine	advmod
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sight	amod
8	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp
9	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	8 sight	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sight	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 sight	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 minx	det
14	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bred	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 ill	punct
16	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 minx	amod
17	minx	minx	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 see	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 see	punct
20	to	to	PART	_	21 see	mark
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 see	obj
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 see	xcomp
24	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 go	xcomp
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 draw	obj
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 see	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	would	water	a fine sight	indeed property	tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	this bred minx			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	breed	participle				tree rules
4	see in a quote	to-infinitive		this bred minx = minx		tree rules
5	go in a quote	infinitive	this bred minx = minx not said here			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	draw in a quote	infinitive	this bred minx = minx not said here	water		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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