The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 31
‘But I make one condition,’ said the Duchess; ‘I must have entire control of your daughter to do as I please with her.’
Who acts: I, Duchess, entire control · What happens: make, say, have, do, please · To what, where: one condition, entire control · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Duchess, entire control), 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 | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 make | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 make | nsubj |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 condition | nummod |
| 6 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Duchess | det |
| 11 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | aux |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 control | amod |
| 18 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 daughter | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 21 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 control | nmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 do | mark |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 have | xcomp |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 please | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 please | nsubj |
| 26 | please | please | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 do | advcl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 her | case |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 please | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | I | one condition | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Product | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Duchess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have | must | I | entire control of your daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | entire control of your daughter not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | please | present | I | with duchess | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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