The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 226

‘You are a great Princess, accustomed to fare daintily, and I have nothing to offer you but black bread and radishes, which will not suit you at all.

Who acts: You, I · What happens: be, accustom, fare, have, offer, not suit · To what, where: great Princess, nothing, you, all

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 (You, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 Princess	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 Princess	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Princess	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Princess	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Princess	amod
6	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 accustomed	punct
8	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 Princess	acl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 fare	mark
10	fare	fare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 accustomed	xcomp
11	daintily	daintily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fare	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 have	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
15	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Princess	conj
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 have	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 offer	mark
18	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 nothing	acl
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 offer	iobj
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 bread	cc
21	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bread	amod
22	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 nothing	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 radishes	cc
24	radishes	radish	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 nothing	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 suit	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 suit	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 suit	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 suit	advmod
29	suit	suit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 nothing	parataxis
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 suit	obj
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 all	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 suit	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Princess	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	You	a great Princess				tree rules
2	accustom	participle		a great Princess not said here				tree rules
3	fare	to-infinitive					daintily property	tree rules
4	have	present	I	nothing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
5	offer	to-infinitive	I not said here	nothing not said here	you			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme
6	not suit	future		you		all		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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