The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 68

It wasn’t enough that you shortened my beard before, but you must now needs cut off the best bit of it.

Who acts: beard, you · What happens: not be, shorten, cut off · To what, where: beard, you

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beard, you), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 enough	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 enough	cop
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 enough	advmod
4	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 shortened	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 shortened	nsubj
7	shortened	shorten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 enough	advcl
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 beard	nmod:poss
9	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shortened	obj
10	before	before	ADV	_	7 shortened	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cut	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 cut	cc
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 cut	nsubj:pass
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 needs	aux
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 needs	advmod
16	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 cut	aux:pass
17	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 enough	parataxis
18	off	off	ADP	_	21 bit	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bit	det
20	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 bit	amod
21	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cut	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bit	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 enough	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	beard		enough property	tree rules
2	shorten	past	you	my beard	before property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent beard=Patient
3	cut off	present · passive		you	off the best bit of beard	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 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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