The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 135

‘Now you look as you ought to look, Delicia: what do you think about it yourself?’

Who acts: you · What happens: look, think · To what, where: Delicia, yourself

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 (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	_	4 look	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 look	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 look	nsubj
4	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 look	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 look	nsubj
7	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 look	aux
8	to	to	PART	_	9 look	mark
9	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 look	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Delicia	punct
11	Delicia	Delicia	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 look	obl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 think	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 think	obj
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 think	aux
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 think	nsubj
16	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 look	conj
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 think	obl
19	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 think	obl:unmarked
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	you		now		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	look	ought	you	Delicia			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	think speech: other	present · do-support	you	yourself		about world	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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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