The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 99

You must know that she is a cruel fairy who hates me, and as she is older than I am and has more power, I can do nothing against her.

Who acts: You, Princess, cruel fairy, I · What happens: know, be, hate, do · To what, where: cruel fairy, me, nothing · 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 (You, Princess, cruel fairy, I), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 know	aux
3	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 fairy	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fairy	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fairy	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fairy	det
8	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fairy	amod
9	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 know	ccomp
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 hates	nsubj
11	hates	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fairy	acl:relcl
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 hates	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 older	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 older	cc
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 older	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 older	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 older	cop
18	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 know	parataxis
19	than	than	SCONJ	_	23 has	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 has	nsubj
21	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 has	cop
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 has	cc
23	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 older	advcl
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 power	amod
25	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 has	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 do	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 do	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 do	aux
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 know	conj
30	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	29 do	obj
31	against	against	ADP	_	32 her	case
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 do	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	must	You			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present	Princess	a cruel fairy		tree rules
3	hate	present	a cruel fairy	me		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
4	is	present	Princess		old property	tree rules
5	is	present	I		have property	tree rules
6	do	can	I	nothing	against Princess	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

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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