The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 28
I had rather be the unhappy Princess Cabbage-Stalk all my life than inflict the sight of my ugliness on anyone else.’
Who acts: I, life · What happens: have, be, inflict, sight · To what, where: life, unhappy Princess Cabbage Stalk, sight, anyone, ugliness
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 (I, life), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 10 Stalk | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 Stalk | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Stalk | det |
| 6 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Stalk | amod |
| 7 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Stalk | compound |
| 8 | Cabbage | cabbage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Stalk | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Cabbage | punct |
| 10 | Stalk | stalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 life | det:predet |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 life | nmod:poss |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 14 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 15 inflict | mark |
| 15 | inflict | inflict | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 life | acl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sight | det |
| 17 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 inflict | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 ugliness | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 ugliness | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ugliness | ugliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sight | nmod |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 anyone | case |
| 22 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 inflict | obl |
| 23 | else | else | ADV | _ | 22 anyone | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | I | my life | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | the unhappy Princess Cabbage Stalk | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | inflict | infinitive | my life not said here | the sight of my ugliness | anyone | tree rules | |||
| 4 | sight | my ugliness | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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