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The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 30

“I care little,” he said, “what my fate may be; but I should be curious to know the fate of my little daughter.”

Who acts: king, fate, my · What happens: care, say, be, know, fate · To what, where: fate, little daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, fate, my), 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

punctnsubjadvmodpunctpunctnsubjparataxispunctpunctobjnmod:possnsubjauxccomppunctccnsubjauxcopconjmarkcsubjdetobjcasenmod:possamodnmodpunctpunctroot“PUNCTIPRONcareVERBlittleADJ,PUNCT”PUNCThePRONsaidVERB,PUNCT“PUNCTwhatPRONmyPRONfateNOUNmayAUXbeVERB;PUNCTbutCCONJIPRONshouldAUXbeAUXcuriousADJtoPARTknowVERBtheDETfateNOUNofADPmyPRONlittleADJdaughterNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_3 carepunct
2IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs3 carensubj
3carecareVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
4littlelittleADJDegree=Pos3 careadvmod
5,,PUNCT_3 carepunct
6”"PUNCT_3 carepunct
7hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 saidnsubj
8saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 careparataxis
9,,PUNCT_15 bepunct
10“"PUNCT_15 bepunct
11whatwhatPRONPronType=Int15 beobj
12mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs13 fatenmod:poss
13fatefateNOUNNumber=Sing15 bensubj
14maymayAUXVerbForm=Fin15 beaux
15bebeVERBVerbForm=Inf8 saidccomp
16;;PUNCT_21 curiouspunct
17butbutCCONJ_21 curiouscc
18IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs21 curiousnsubj
19shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin21 curiousaux
20bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf21 curiouscop
21curiouscuriousADJDegree=Pos3 careconj
22totoPART_23 knowmark
23knowknowVERBVerbForm=Inf21 curiouscsubj
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 fatedet
25fatefateNOUNNumber=Sing23 knowobj
26ofofADP_29 daughtercase
27mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 daughternmod:poss
28littlelittleADJDegree=Pos29 daughteramod
29daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing25 fatenmod
30..PUNCT_3 carepunct
31”"PUNCT_3 carepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1care in a quotepresentkingvn care-88.1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2say speech: assertpastkingvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3be in a quotemaymy fatevn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
4is in a quoteshouldkingcurious propertytree rules
5know in a quoteto-infinitivethe fate of my little daughtervn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus
6fate in a quotemynom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent
7fate in a quotemy little daughternom fate «event transitive»: of=patient

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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