The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 96
She is as good as she is beautiful, and we will give her a bushel of gold pieces for her dowry.’
Who acts: sister, we · What happens: be, give · To what, where: bushel, sister
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 (sister, we), 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 | 4 good | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 good | cop |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 good | advmod |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 beautiful | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 beautiful | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 beautiful | cop |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 good | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 give | cc |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 give | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 give | aux |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 good | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 give | iobj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bushel | det |
| 16 | bushel | bushel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 pieces | case |
| 18 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pieces | compound |
| 19 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 bushel | nmod |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 dowry | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 dowry | nmod:poss |
| 22 | dowry | dowry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pieces | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | sister | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | sister | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | future | we | a bushel of gold pieces for sister's dowry | sister | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient bushel=Theme |
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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