The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 153

Then the youngest sister declared that if they laid a finger on the little garden boy, she would herself go and tell their father the secret of the holes in their shoes.

Who acts: youngest sister, sisters, question · What happens: declare, lay, go, tell · To what, where: finger, secret, father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest sister, sisters, question), 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	5 declared	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sister	det
3	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 sister	amod
4	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 declared	nsubj
5	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 laid	mark
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 laid	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 laid	nsubj
9	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 declared	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 finger	det
11	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laid	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	16 boy	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 boy	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 boy	amod
15	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 boy	compound
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laid	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 go	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 go	aux
20	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 go	nsubj
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 declared	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 tell	cc
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 go	conj
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 father	nmod:poss
25	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tell	iobj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 secret	det
27	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tell	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 holes	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 holes	det
30	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 secret	nmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 shoes	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 shoes	nmod:poss
33	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 holes	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past	the youngest sister			then		vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	lay a condition, not said to happen	past	sisters = sister	a finger			on the little garden boy	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent finger=Theme on boy=Destination
3	go	would	question					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	question not said here	the secret of the holes in sisters's shoes	sisters's father			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent father=Recipient secret=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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