The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 177
‘You shall never be a gardener’s wife.’
Who acts: You · What happens: not be · To what, where: wife
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 (You), 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 | _ | 9 wife | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 wife | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 wife | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wife | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 gardener | det |
| 7 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 gardener | case |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wife | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 wife | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | shall | You | a gardener's wife | tree rules |
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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