The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 79

You have torn my thin little coat all to shreds, useless, awkward hussies that you are!”

Who acts: You · What happens: tear · To what, where: thin little coat

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 (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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 torn	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 torn	aux
3	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 coat	nmod:poss
5	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 coat	amod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 coat	amod
7	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 torn	obj
8	all	all	ADV	_	10 shreds	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 shreds	case
10	shreds	shred	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 torn	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hussies	punct
12	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hussies	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 useless	punct
14	awkward	awkward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hussies	amod
15	hussies	hussy	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shreds	nmod
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 are	obj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 are	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 hussies	acl:relcl
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 torn	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 torn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tear	present · perfect	You	my thin little coat				to shreds useless awkward hussies result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent coat=Patient to shred=Result

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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