The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 172
‘Sire,’ they answered, ‘if she were as pretty that would do very well.’
Who acts: brothers, daughter · What happens: answer, be, do
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 (brothers, 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 | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 2 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 6 answered | cc |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Sire | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pretty | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 pretty | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 pretty | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 pretty | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 pretty | cop |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 pretty | advmod |
| 13 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 answered | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 pretty | xcomp |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 well | advmod |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 do | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | brothers = brother | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | daughter | pretty property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | would | daughter not said here | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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