The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 169

Then suddenly she be-thought her of the chicken bones that she had dragged all that weary way, and she said to herself: ‘They would not all have told me to take such good care of these bones if they had not had some good reason for doing so.

Who acts: door, ways, good reason, bones · What happens: be, drag, say, not tell, take, not have · To what, where: weary way, door, ways, me, such good care, good reason · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, ways, good reason, bones), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 thought	advmod
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	6 thought	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thought	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 thought	cop
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 thought	punct
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thought	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 bones	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bones	det
10	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bones	compound
11	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 thought	obl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 dragged	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 dragged	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 dragged	aux
15	dragged	drag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 bones	acl:relcl
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 way	det:predet
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 way	det
18	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 way	amod
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dragged	obl:unmarked
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	nsubj
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thought	parataxis
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 herself	case
25	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 said	obl
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 told	punct
27	‘	'	PUNCT	_	33 told	punct
28	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 told	nsubj:pass
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 told	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 told	advmod
31	all	all	ADV	_	33 told	advmod
32	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 told	aux
33	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 said	conj
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 told	iobj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 take	mark
36	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 told	xcomp
37	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 care	amod
38	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 care	amod
39	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 take	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 bones	case
41	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	42 bones	det
42	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 care	nmod
43	if	if	SCONJ	_	47 had	mark
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 had	nsubj
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 had	aux
46	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 had	advmod
47	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 take	advcl
48	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	50 reason	det
49	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 reason	amod
50	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 had	obj
51	for	for	SCONJ	_	52 doing	mark
52	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	50 reason	acl
53	so	so	ADV	_	52 doing	advmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive	door			then	of the chicken bones; suddenly, think property	tree rules
2	drag	past · perfect	door	all weary way				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	door		door			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient
4	not tell speech: assert	would · perfect · passive		ways = way	me		all property	tree rules
5	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	ways = way not said here	such good care of this bones				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
6	not have a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	ways = way	some good reason				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient
7	do	gerund	some good reason not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	care		this bones					nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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