The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 85

Her own daughter, who was as hideous as night and had only one eye, reproached her by saying, ‘It is I who ought to have had this good luck and been Queen.’

Who acts: own daughter, eye, I · What happens: be, have, reproach, say · To what, where: one eye, sister, I, good luck, Queen · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (own daughter, eye, I), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 daughter	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 daughter	amod
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hideous	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hideous	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 hideous	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hideous	cop
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 hideous	advmod
8	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 night	case
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hideous	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hideous	conj
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 one	advmod
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 eye	nummod
15	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 reproached	punct
17	reproached	reproach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hideous	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 reproached	obj
19	by	by	SCONJ	_	20 saying	mark
20	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 reproached	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 I	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 I	punct
23	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 I	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 I	cop
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 had	nsubj
27	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 had	aux
28	to	to	PART	_	30 had	mark
29	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 had	aux
30	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 saying	ccomp
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 luck	det
32	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 luck	amod
33	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 Queen	cc
35	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 Queen	cop
36	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 had	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 hideous	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 hideous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	sister's own daughter		night	hideous property	tree rules
2	have	past	sister's own daughter not said here	one eye			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
3	reproach	past	sister's own daughter not said here	sister			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	say speech: assert	gerund	sister's own daughter not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	is a	present	eye	I			tree rules
6	have	ought · perfect	I	this good luck			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient
7	is a	participle	I not said here	Queen			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 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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