The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 72
So she said that she would take great care not to touch anything, and he should see that she did.
Who acts: daughter, Troll · What happens: say, take, not touch, see, do · To what, where: great care, 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, Troll), 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 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 take | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 take | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | aux |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 care | amod |
| 9 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 touch | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 touch | mark |
| 12 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 take | advcl |
| 13 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 touch | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 see | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 see | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | aux |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 did | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 did | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | 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 clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | take | would | daughter | great care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not touch | to-infinitive | daughter not said here | anything | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme anything=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | should | Troll | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | do | past | daughter | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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