The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 33
‘Never mind, dear little fawn, I will never forsake you,’ and she took off her golden garter and tied it round the Roe’s neck.
Who acts: you, I, girl · What happens: not mind, not forsake, take off, tie · To what, where: dear little fawn, you, golden garter, garter
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, girl), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 mind | advmod |
| 3 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fawn | punct |
| 5 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fawn | amod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fawn | amod |
| 7 | fawn | fawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mind | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 forsake | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 forsake | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 forsake | aux |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 forsake | advmod |
| 12 | forsake | forsake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 mind | parataxis |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 forsake | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 forsake | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 took | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 took | nsubj |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mind | conj |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 took | compound:prt |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 garter | nmod:poss |
| 21 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 garter | amod |
| 22 | garter | garter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 tied | cc |
| 24 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 took | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 tied | obj |
| 26 | round | round | ADP | _ | 30 neck | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Roe | det |
| 28 | Roe | roe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 neck | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 Roe | case |
| 30 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tied | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind | imperative | you not said here | dear little fawn | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not forsake | future | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take off | past | girl | girl's golden garter | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garter=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tie | past | girl not said here | garter | round the Roe's neck | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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