The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 89
‘Don’t make such a mistake again; find me something that it will be quite impossible for her to do,’ she said.
Who acts: you, it, Queen · What happens: not make, find, be, do, ', say · To what, where: mistake, me · 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, it, 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 | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 make | advmod |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 mistake | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 mistake | det |
| 7 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 make | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 find | punct |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | conj |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 find | obj |
| 12 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 find | obj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 impossible | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 impossible | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 impossible | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 impossible | cop |
| 17 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 18 impossible | advmod |
| 18 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 find | ccomp |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 do | mark |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 do | nsubj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 do | mark |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 impossible | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ’ | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | conj |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 said | nsubj |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 ’ | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | imperative · do-support | you not said here | such mistake | again | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product | |||
| 2 | find | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme something=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | is | future | it | impossible property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | Queen | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | ' | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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