The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 88
‘It is not possible that _you_ should want for friends, you charming creature,’ said the Queen, kissing her.
Who acts: It, you, Queen · What happens: not be, want, charm, say, kiss · To what, where: creature, Queen · 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 (It, you, Queen), 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 possible | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 possible | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 possible | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 possible | advmod |
| 5 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 said | ccomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 want | mark |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 that | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 want | nsubj |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 you | punct |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 want | aux |
| 11 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 possible | csubj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 friends | case |
| 13 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 want | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 charming | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 charming | nsubj |
| 16 | charming | charm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 possible | advcl |
| 17 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 charming | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 possible | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 possible | punct |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Queen | det |
| 22 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 said | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 kissing | punct |
| 24 | kissing | kiss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 said | advcl |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 kissing | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | It | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want | should | you | for friends | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | charm | gerund | you | creature | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus creature=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | kiss | gerund | the Queen not said here | Queen | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-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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