The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 88

Then the false bride answered: “She deserves to be put stark naked into a barrel lined with sharp nails, which should be dragged by two white horses up and down the street till she is dead.”

Who acts: false bride, bride, two white horses · What happens: answer, deserve, put, line, drag, be · To what, where: stark, barrel · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (false bride, bride, two white horses), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 answered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bride	det
3	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bride	amod
4	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	nsubj
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 deserves	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 deserves	punct
8	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 deserves	nsubj
9	deserves	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	12 put	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 put	aux:pass
12	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 deserves	xcomp
13	stark	stark	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 put	obj
14	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 put	xcomp
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 barrel	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 barrel	det
17	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 put	obl
18	lined	line	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 barrel	acl
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 nails	case
20	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 nails	amod
21	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 lined	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 dragged	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 dragged	nsubj:pass
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 dragged	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 dragged	aux:pass
26	dragged	drag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 barrel	acl
27	by	by	ADP	_	30 horses	case
28	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 horses	nummod
29	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 horses	amod
30	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 dragged	obl
31	up	up	ADP	_	35 street	case
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 down	cc
33	down	down	ADP	_	31 up	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 street	det
35	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dragged	obl
36	till	till	SCONJ	_	39 dead	mark
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 dead	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 dead	cop
39	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 put	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 deserves	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 deserves	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the false bride			then		tree rules
2	deserve in a quote	present	bride					tree rules
3	put in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	bride not said here	stark	a barrel		naked property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: stark=Goal
4	line in a quote	participle		a barrel not said here			with sharp nails	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with nail=Theme
5	drag in a quote	should · passive	two white horses	a barrel			up the street	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
6	is in a quote	present	bride				dead property	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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