The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 59

‘All the better to hug you, my child.’

What happens: hug · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden Hood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	4 better	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 better	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 better	det
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hug	mark
6	hug	hug	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 better	csubj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 hug	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 child	punct
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 child	nmod:poss
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hug	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 better	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hug	to-infinitive		you					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-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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