The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 20

‘One would think that I and my crutch were put in on purpose to make that slim, charming young shepherdess in the next picture look prettier by contrast.

Who acts: One · What happens: think, put in, make, charm, look · To what, where: I, purpose, that, young shepherdess, next picture · 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 (One), 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 think	punct
2	One	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 think	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 put	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 put	nsubj:pass
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 crutch	cc
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 crutch	nmod:poss
9	crutch	crutch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 I	conj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 put	aux:pass
11	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 think	ccomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	11 put	compound:prt
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 purpose	case
14	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 make	mark
16	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 put	advcl
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 make	obj
18	slim	slim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 make	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 charming	punct
20	charming	charm	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 look	advcl
21	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 shepherdess	amod
22	shepherdess	shepherdess	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 charming	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 picture	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 picture	det
25	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 picture	amod
26	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 charming	obl
27	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 think	parataxis
28	prettier	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 look	xcomp
29	by	by	ADP	_	30 contrast	case
30	contrast	contrast	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 prettier	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	would	One				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	put in	past · passive		I	purpose		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on purpose=Destination
3	make	to-infinitive		that		slim property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset that=Product
4	charm	gerund		young shepherdess	the next picture		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus shepherdess=Experiencer
5	look	infinitive				pretty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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