The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 36
So she said she would be on her guard, and not touch anything.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: say, be, not touch · To what, where: guard, anything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, 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 (daughter), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 guard | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 guard | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 guard | cop |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 guard | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 guard | nmod:poss |
| 9 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 touch | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 touch | cc |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 touch | advmod |
| 13 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | conj |
| 14 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 touch | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | daughter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | would | daughter | daughter's guard | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not touch | infinitive | daughter not said here | anything | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme anything=Co-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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