The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 115
I know that you are my mother’s sister, and that by your art you turned the soldiers who were sent to kill me into cabbages, and my nurse into a hen, and that you do me only too much honor in proposing that I shall marry your son.
Who acts: I, you, that, soldiers · What happens: know, be, turn, send, kill, do · To what, where: sister, soldiers, me, cabbages, much honor, son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, that, soldiers), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 sister | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 sister | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sister | cop |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sister | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 mother | case |
| 9 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 know | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 turned | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 turned | cc |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 turned | nsubj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 art | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 art | nmod:poss |
| 15 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turned | obl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 turned | nsubj |
| 17 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 soldiers | det |
| 19 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 turned | obj |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 sent | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 sent | aux:pass |
| 22 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 soldiers | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 kill | mark |
| 24 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 sent | xcomp |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 kill | obj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 cabbages | case |
| 27 | cabbages | cabbage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 kill | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 nurse | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 nurse | cc |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 nurse | nmod:poss |
| 31 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turned | obl |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 hen | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 hen | det |
| 34 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turned | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 do | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 do | cc |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 do | mark |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 do | nsubj |
| 39 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | conj |
| 40 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 do | iobj |
| 41 | only | only | ADV | _ | 43 much | advmod |
| 42 | too | too | ADV | _ | 43 much | advmod |
| 43 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 honor | amod |
| 44 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 do | obl:unmarked |
| 45 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 46 proposing | mark |
| 46 | proposing | propose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 do | advcl |
| 47 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 50 marry | mark |
| 48 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 50 marry | nsubj |
| 49 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 marry | aux |
| 50 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 proposing | advcl |
| 51 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 son | nmod:poss |
| 52 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 marry | obj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | you | my mother's sister | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | that | the soldiers | by your art; into a hen result; my nurse obl | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme into hen=Result | |||
| 4 | send | past · passive | the soldiers | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | kill | to-infinitive | the soldiers not said here | me | cabbages | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 6 | do | present | you | much honor | me | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality | |||
| 7 | propose | gerund | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | marry | shall | I | your son | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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