The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 157
She certainly was not worth bringing from the other end of the world!’
Who acts: bride · What happens: not be, bring · To what, where: other end
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 (bride), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 worth | nsubj |
| 2 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 worth | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 worth | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 worth | advmod |
| 5 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 worth | xcomp |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 end | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 end | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 end | amod |
| 10 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bringing | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 world | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 world | det |
| 13 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 end | nmod |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 worth | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 worth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | bride | certainly, worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | gerund | bride not said here | from the other end of the world | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from end=Initial_Location |
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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