The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 80
‘If you wish me to do this, dear father, I will do it,’ replied the girl.
Who acts: you, this, I · What happens: wish, do, father, reply · To what, where: me, witchcraft, girl
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 (you, this, I), 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 wish | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 wish | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 wish | nsubj |
| 4 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | advcl |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wish | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wish | xcomp |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 father | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 father | punct |
| 10 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 father | amod |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 do | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 replied | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 replied | punct |
| 19 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 girl | det |
| 21 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 replied | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish a condition, not said to happen | present | you | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | father | this | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | do | future | I | witchcraft | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | reply speech: assert | past | the girl | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent girl=Topic |
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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