The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 155
‘Here’s a pretty state of things! she is as wicked as she is ugly.
Who acts: pretty state, escort · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pretty state, escort), 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 | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 wicked | advmod |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 state | det |
| 5 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 state | amod |
| 6 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Here | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 things | case |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 state | nmod |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wicked | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 wicked | cop |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 wicked | advmod |
| 13 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 ugly | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ugly | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 ugly | cop |
| 17 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wicked | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 wicked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a pretty state of things | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | escort | wicked property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | escort | ugly 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 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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