The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 21

‘Sister,’ said the youngest, ‘I cannot think how you can tempt us to break our father’s command.

Who acts: Sister, I, you, father · What happens: say, not think, tempt, break, command · To what, where: us, command · 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 (Sister, I, you, father), 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 Sister	punct
2	Sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sister	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Sister	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 youngest	det
7	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 think	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 think	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 think	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 think	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 think	advmod
13	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 tempt	advmod
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 tempt	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 tempt	aux
17	tempt	tempt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 think	ccomp
18	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 tempt	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 break	mark
20	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 tempt	advcl
21	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 father	nmod:poss
22	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 command	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 father	case
24	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 break	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Sister			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not think speech: other	can	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	tempt	can	you		us	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
4	break	to-infinitive	you not said here	our father's command		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer command=Patient
5	command		our father			nom command «communication transitive»: poss=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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