The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 166
‘This is a bad business for us, gossip; your daughter ought to have been prettier.’
Who acts: This, daughter · What happens: be · To what, where: bad business
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 (This, daughter), 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 | _ | 6 business | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 business | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 business | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 business | det |
| 5 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 business | amod |
| 6 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 us | case |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 business | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gossip | punct |
| 10 | gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 business | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 prettier | punct |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 prettier | nsubj |
| 14 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 prettier | aux |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 prettier | mark |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 prettier | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 prettier | cop |
| 18 | prettier | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 business | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 business | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 business | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | a bad business and gossip | for us | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | ought · perfect | your daughter | pretty 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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