The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 56

‘It is quite impossible,’ she said, ‘that his master should be half as handsome and delightful.

Who acts: Princess, master · What happens: be, say, ‘ · 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 (Princess, master), 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 impossible	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 impossible	expl
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 impossible	cop
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 impossible	advmod
5	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	parataxis
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 impossible	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 impossible	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ‘	punct
11	‘	‘	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 half	mark
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 master	nmod:poss
14	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 half	nsubj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 half	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 half	cop
17	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	11 ‘	ccomp
18	as	as	ADP	_	19 handsome	case
19	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 half	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 delightful	cc
21	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 half	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present		impossible property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Princess		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	‘	past	Princess not said here		tree rules
4	is	should	horse's master	as handsome; half property	tree rules
5	be		horse's master not said here		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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