The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 152
‘It is all because our Turkey-maiden will not love me!’
Who acts: disturbance · What happens: not be
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 (disturbance), 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 | _ | 12 love | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 love | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 love | cop |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 love | advmod |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 love | mark |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 maiden | nmod:poss |
| 7 | Turkey | Turkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 maiden | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Turkey | punct |
| 9 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 love | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 love | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 love | advmod |
| 12 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 love | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 love | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 love | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | disturbance | all, love 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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