The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 85

‘I’ll venture to say that the idle minx has not done anything at all—she prefers to sit with her hands before her to keep them white.’

Who acts: I, idle minx, minx · What happens: venture, say, not do, prefer, sit, keep · To what, where: anything, all, keys · 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 (I, idle minx, minx), 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 venture	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 venture	nsubj
3	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 venture	aux
4	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 say	mark
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 venture	xcomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 done	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 minx	det
9	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 minx	amod
10	minx	minx	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 done	nsubj
11	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 done	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 done	advmod
13	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 say	ccomp
14	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 done	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 done	obl
17	—	-	PUNCT	_	19 prefers	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 prefers	nsubj
19	prefers	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 venture	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	21 sit	mark
21	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 prefers	xcomp
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 hands	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hands	nmod:poss
24	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sit	obl
25	before	before	ADP	_	26 her	case
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sit	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 keep	mark
28	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 sit	advcl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 keep	obj
30	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 keep	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 venture	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 venture	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	venture	future	I					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not do	present · perfect	the idle minx	anything	all			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
4	prefer	present	minx					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	sit not said to happen	to-infinitive	minx not said here			before minx	with minx's hands	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location
6	keep	to-infinitive	minx not said here	keys = key			white property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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