The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 37

Then the Fairy answered that the Princess would be as pretty, and clever, and well brought up as it was possible to be, and the old King growled to the Queen that it was lucky for her that it was so, as they would certainly have been hanged if it were otherwise.

Who acts: Fairy, Princess, child, old King · What happens: answer, be, bring up, growl, hange · To what, where: Queen, King · 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 (Fairy, Princess, child, old 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 answered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fairy	det
3	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 pretty	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Princess	det
7	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 pretty	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 pretty	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 pretty	cop
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 pretty	advmod
11	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	4 answered	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 clever	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 clever	cc
14	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 answered	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 brought	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 brought	cc
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 brought	advmod
18	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 clever	parataxis
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 brought	compound:prt
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 possible	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 possible	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 possible	cop
23	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 brought	advcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 be	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 possible	cop
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 growled	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 growled	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 King	det
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 King	amod
30	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 growled	nsubj
31	growled	growl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 answered	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 Queen	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Queen	det
34	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 growled	obl
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 lucky	mark
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 lucky	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 lucky	cop
38	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 growled	advcl
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 her	case
40	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 lucky	obl
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 so	mark
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 so	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 so	cop
44	so	so	ADV	_	38 lucky	advcl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 hanged	punct
46	as	as	SCONJ	_	52 hanged	mark
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 hanged	nsubj:pass
48	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 hanged	aux
49	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	52 hanged	advmod
50	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	52 hanged	aux
51	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	52 hanged	aux:pass
52	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 growled	conj
53	if	if	SCONJ	_	56 otherwise	mark
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 otherwise	nsubj
55	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 otherwise	cop
56	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	52 hanged	xcomp
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the Fairy			then		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	the Princess				pretty property	tree rules
3	bring up	participle					well property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	child				possible property	tree rules
5	growl	past	the old King		the Queen			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to queen=Recipient
6	is	past	child				for Princess; lucky property	tree rules
7	is	past	child				so property	tree rules
8	hange	would · perfect · passive		King			certainly property	tree rules
9	is a condition, not said to happen	past	child				otherwise 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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