The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 52
‘Yes,’ said the King’s daughter, ‘I will take good care not to touch what you do not wish me to touch.’
Who acts: daughter, I, you · What happens: say, take, not touch, not wish, touch · To what, where: good care, me · 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, I, you), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 King | case |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 take | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 take | aux |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 care | amod |
| 16 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obj |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 touch | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 touch | mark |
| 19 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 take | conj |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 wish | obj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 wish | nsubj |
| 22 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 wish | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 wish | advmod |
| 24 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 touch | ccomp |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 wish | iobj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 touch | mark |
| 27 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 wish | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King's daughter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | take | future | I | good care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not touch | to-infinitive | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not wish | present · do-support | you | me | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | touch not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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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