The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 114

‘I never will marry you! you are too ugly and too much like your cruel father.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: not marry, be · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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	_	5 marry	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 marry	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 marry	advmod
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 marry	aux
5	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 ugly	csubj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 marry	obj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 marry	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 ugly	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 ugly	cop
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 ugly	advmod
11	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 much	cc
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 much	advmod
14	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ugly	conj
15	like	like	ADP	_	18 father	case
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 father	nmod:poss
17	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 father	amod
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 much	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 ugly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not marry	future	I	you		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
2	is	present	you		ugly property	tree rules
3	be		you not said here		like your cruel father	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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