The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 206

‘Did not I tell you that I was quite sure that that creature who wooed and won you as his wife had not been born a Pig?

Who acts: I, creature · What happens: not tell, be, woo, win, not bear · To what, where: you, wife · 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 (I, creature), 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	_	5 tell	punct
2	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 tell	advmod
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 sure	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 sure	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sure	cop
10	quite	quite	ADV	_	11 sure	advmod
11	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tell	ccomp
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 won	mark
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 creature	det
14	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 won	nsubj
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 wooed	nsubj
16	wooed	woo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 creature	acl:relcl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wooed	cc
18	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sure	ccomp
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 won	obj
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 born	mark
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 wife	nmod:poss
22	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 born	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 born	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 born	advmod
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 born	aux:pass
26	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 won	advcl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 Pig	det
28	Pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 born	obj
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	past · do-support	I		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	is	past	I			sure property	tree rules
3	woo	past	that creature				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	win	past	that creature	you			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality
5	not bear	past · perfect · passive		creature's wife			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary pig=Patient

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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