The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 14

‘Certainly it is becoming in _you_ to object to that,’ said King Grumpy, ‘since you are ugly enough to frighten anyone yourself.’

Who acts: glance, Grumpy, you · What happens: become, say, be, frighten · To what, where: object, anyone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (glance, Grumpy, you), 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 becoming	punct
2	Certainly	certainly	ADV	_	5 becoming	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 becoming	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 becoming	aux
5	becoming	become	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 said	ccomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 you	case
7	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 in	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 becoming	obl
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 object	punct
10	to	to	PART	_	11 object	mark
11	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 becoming	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 that	case
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 object	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 becoming	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 becoming	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Grumpy	nmod:desc
18	Grumpy	Grumpy	PROPN	_	16 said	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ugly	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 ugly	punct
21	since	since	SCONJ	_	24 ugly	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 ugly	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 ugly	cop
24	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 said	ccomp
25	enough	enough	ADV	_	24 ugly	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 frighten	mark
27	frighten	frighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 ugly	advcl
28	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 frighten	obj
29	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 frighten	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	become	present · progressive	glance	object to that	in you result; certainly property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in you=Result
2	say speech: assert	past	Grumpy King			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	present	you		enough, ugly property	tree rules
4	frighten	to-infinitive	you not said here	anyone		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus anyone=Experiencer yourself=Result

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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