The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 64
‘You must find me some task for this fine Princess which she cannot possibly do, for I mean to punish her, and if she does not do what I order, she will not be able to say that I am unjust.’
Who acts: You, Princess, I · What happens: find, not do, mean, punish, order, not be · To what, where: me, fine Princess, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. 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, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 find | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | aux |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 find | obj |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 task | det |
| 7 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 Princess | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 Princess | det |
| 10 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Princess | amod |
| 11 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 task | nmod |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 do | obj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 do | advmod |
| 16 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 17 do | advmod |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Princess | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 mean | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 mean | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 mean | nsubj |
| 21 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 punish | mark |
| 23 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 mean | xcomp |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 punish | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 do | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 do | cc |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 do | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 do | nsubj |
| 29 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 do | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 do | advmod |
| 31 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 find | conj |
| 32 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 31 do | obj |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 order | nsubj |
| 34 | order | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 what | acl:relcl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 able | punct |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 able | nsubj |
| 37 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 able | aux |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 able | advmod |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 able | cop |
| 40 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 find | conj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 say | mark |
| 42 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 able | xcomp |
| 43 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 46 unjust | mark |
| 44 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 unjust | nsubj |
| 45 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 unjust | cop |
| 46 | unjust | unjust | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 say | ccomp |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
| 48 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | must | You | me | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme task=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | not do | can | Princess | this fine Princess | possibly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | mean | present | I | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | punish not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | Princess | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not do a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | Princess | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | order | present | I | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | not is | future | Princess | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | is | present | I | unjust 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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