The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 156
‘See if I don’t make her change her mind pretty soon!’ said the wicked King with a chuckle.
Who acts: I, Delicia, wicked King · What happens: see, not make, not change, say, mind · To what, where: Delicia, mind · 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 (I, Delicia, wicked King), 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 | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 2 | See | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 make | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 make | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 make | advmod |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 See | advcl |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 make | xcomp |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mind | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 change | obj |
| 12 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 13 soon | advmod |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 change | advmod |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 18 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 King | amod |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 chuckle | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 chuckle | det |
| 22 | chuckle | chuckle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | not make a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | I | Delicia | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not change | infinitive | Delicia not said here | Delicia's mind | soon property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the wicked King | with a chuckle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | mind | Delicia | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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