The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 10

‘Sire,’ she replied, ‘I know too well what I am like to be hurt by what you say, but I assure you that I have no wish to marry your son I had rather be called Princess Cabbage-Stalk than Queen Curlicue.’

Who acts: Stalk, I, you, son · What happens: reply, know, like, hurt, say, assure · To what, where: you, wish, son, Princess Cabbage Stalk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (Stalk, I, you, son), 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	_	2 Sire	punct
2	Sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 replied	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 replied	nsubj
6	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 know	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 know	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 know	nsubj
10	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 replied	ccomp
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 well	advmod
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 know	advmod
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 like	obj
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 like	nsubj
15	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 like	aux
16	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 know	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	19 hurt	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 hurt	aux:pass
19	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 like	xcomp
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 what	case
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 hurt	obl
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 say	nsubj
23	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 what	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 assure	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 assure	cc
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 assure	nsubj
27	assure	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 replied	conj
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 assure	iobj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 have	mark
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 have	nsubj
31	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 assure	advcl
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 wish	det
33	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 have	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 marry	mark
35	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 wish	acl
36	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 son	nmod:poss
37	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 marry	obj
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 had	nsubj
39	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 son	acl:relcl
40	rather	rather	ADV	_	42 called	advmod
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 called	aux:pass
42	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 had	xcomp
43	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 Stalk	compound
44	Cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 Stalk	compound
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 Cabbage	punct
46	Stalk	stalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 called	xcomp
47	than	than	ADP	_	49 Curlicue	case
48	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 Curlicue	nmod:desc
49	Curlicue	Curlicue	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 Stalk	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct
51	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Stalk				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know	present	I			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	like	present	I				tree rules
4	hurt not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	I not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
5	say speech: assert	present	you				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	assure	present	I		you		vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
7	have	present	I	no wish			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient
8	marry	to-infinitive	I not said here	your son			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
9	have	past	I	your son not said here			tree rules
10	call	infinitive · passive	your son not said here	Princess Cabbage Stalk than Curlicue Queen			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»

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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