The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 42

‘What a baby you are!’ said the other sister; ‘has not our father enough soldiers to protect you, even if the disgusting creature did come to woo you?’

Who acts: other sister, disgusting creature · What happens: say, have, protect, come, woo · To what, where: father, you · 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 (other sister, disgusting 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	_	4 baby	punct
2	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 baby	det
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 baby	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 are	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 baby	acl:relcl
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 baby	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 baby	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sister	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sister	amod
12	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 has	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 has	punct
15	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 father	advmod
17	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 father	nmod:poss
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 has	obj
19	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 soldiers	amod
20	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 has	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 protect	mark
22	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 has	advcl
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 protect	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 come	punct
25	even	even	ADV	_	31 come	advmod
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 come	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 creature	det
28	disgusting	disgusting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 creature	amod
29	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 come	nsubj
30	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 come	aux
31	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 protect	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 woo	mark
33	woo	woo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 come	xcomp
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 woo	obj
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 has	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the other sister			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present		our father		tree rules
3	protect	to-infinitive			you	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
4	come a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	the disgusting creature			tree rules
5	woo	to-infinitive	the disgusting creature not said here	you		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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