The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 22

‘I say that she shall be the unluckiest of the unlucky until she is twenty years old.’

Who acts: I, Queen · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (I, 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	_	3 say	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 unluckiest	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 unluckiest	nsubj
6	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 unluckiest	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 unluckiest	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 unluckiest	det
9	unluckiest	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 say	ccomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 unlucky	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 unlucky	det
12	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 unluckiest	obl
13	until	until	SCONJ	_	18 old	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 old	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 old	cop
16	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 years	nummod
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 old	obl:unmarked
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 unluckiest	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	I			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	shall	Queen		of the unlucky; unlucky property	tree rules
3	is	present	Queen	year	old property	tree rules

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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