The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 39
‘How can I wish my little daughter to grow up pretty if she is to be married to that horrid little dwarf, the King’s son,’ she said to herself, ‘and yet, if she is ugly we shall both be killed.
Who acts: I, fairy · What happens: wish, grow up, marry, say, be, kill · To what, where: little daughter, fairy, we · 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, fairy), 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 | _ | 5 wish | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 wish | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 wish | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 wish | nsubj |
| 5 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 said | ccomp |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 daughter | amod |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wish | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 grow | mark |
| 10 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wish | advcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 grow | compound:prt |
| 12 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 10 grow | advmod |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 married | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 married | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 married | aux:pass |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 married | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 married | aux:pass |
| 18 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 grow | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 dwarf | case |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 dwarf | nsubj |
| 21 | horrid | horrid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 dwarf | amod |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 dwarf | amod |
| 23 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 married | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 son | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 King | det |
| 26 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 son | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 King | case |
| 28 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dwarf | vocative |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 said | nsubj |
| 32 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 herself | case |
| 34 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 32 said | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 yet | punct |
| 36 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 38 yet | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 yet | cc |
| 38 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 43 ugly | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 yet | punct |
| 40 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 43 ugly | mark |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 ugly | nsubj |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 ugly | cop |
| 43 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 said | ccomp |
| 44 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 45 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 killed | aux |
| 46 | both | both | ADV | _ | 48 killed | advmod |
| 47 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 48 killed | aux:pass |
| 48 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 ugly | parataxis |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | can | I | my little daughter | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot daughter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grow up | to-infinitive | I not said here | pretty property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | marry a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | fairy | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | fairy | fairy | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to herself=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | fairy | yet | ugly property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | kill | shall · passive | we | both property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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