The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 120

‘My child,’ said the Fairy, ‘a crown is a very pretty thing, but you know neither the price nor the weight of it.’

Who acts: child, crown, you · What happens: say, be, know · To what, where: Fairy, pretty thing, price · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (child, crown, 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	_	3 child	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 child	nmod:poss
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 child	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 child	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Fairy	det
8	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thing	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 thing	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 crown	det
12	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thing	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 thing	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 thing	det
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 pretty	advmod
16	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 thing	amod
17	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Fairy	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 know	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 know	cc
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 know	nsubj
21	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
22	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	24 price	cc:preconj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 price	det
24	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 know	obj
25	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	27 weight	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 weight	det
27	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 price	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 weight	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	My child	the Fairy and a pretty thing	tree rules
2	is a	present	a crown	a pretty thing	tree rules
3	know	present	you	the price nor the weight of crown	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer price=Stimulus

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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