The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 64
‘You foolish thing,’ said her eldest sister, ‘you are always afraid of something.
Who acts: You, eldest sister · What happens: thing, say, be · 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 (You, eldest sister), 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 thing | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 thing | nsubj |
| 3 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thing | amod |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thing | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 thing | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sister | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 sister | amod |
| 10 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 afraid | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 afraid | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 afraid | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 afraid | cop |
| 15 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 16 afraid | advmod |
| 16 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 something | case |
| 18 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 afraid | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thing | You | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | thing's eldest sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | you | of something; afraid, always property | 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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