The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 86
‘Now, you are to try on the gold shoe and be a Princess,’ said the other servants, and they laughed at her and mocked her.
Who acts: you, servants · What happens: be, say, laugh, mock · To what, where: gold shoe, Princess, other servants, Kari · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, servants), 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 | _ | 7 try | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 try | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 try | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 try | cop |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 try | mark |
| 7 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | ccomp |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 shoe | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shoe | det |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shoe | compound |
| 11 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 try | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Princess | cc |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 Princess | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Princess | det |
| 15 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 try | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 try | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 try | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 servants | det |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 servants | amod |
| 21 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 said | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 laughed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 laughed | cc |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 laughed | nsubj |
| 25 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | conj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 her | case |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 laughed | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 mocked | cc |
| 29 | mocked | mock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 laughed | conj |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 mocked | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | the gold shoe | now | try property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | you not said here | a Princess | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the other servants | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | laugh | past | servants = servant | at Kari | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | mock | past | servants = servant not said here | Kari | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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