The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 9

‘Well, I must say Curlicue is ugly enough, but I don’t think _you_ need have thought twice before consenting to marry him.’

Who acts: I, Curlicue, you · What happens: say, be, not think, need, think, consent · To what, where: King · 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 (I, Curlicue, 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	_	6 say	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 say	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Curlicue	curlicue	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ugly	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 ugly	cop
9	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 say	ccomp
10	enough	enough	ADV	_	9 ugly	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 think	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 think	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 think	nsubj
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 think	aux
15	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 think	advmod
16	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 say	conj
17	_	_	PUNCT	_	20 need	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 need	nsubj
19	_	_	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 need	aux
20	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 thought	nsubj:pass
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 thought	aux
22	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 think	ccomp
23	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 thought	advmod
24	before	before	SCONJ	_	25 consenting	mark
25	consenting	consent	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 thought	advcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 marry	mark
27	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 consenting	xcomp
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 marry	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	must	I			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Curlicue		enough, ugly property	tree rules
3	not think speech: other	present · do-support	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	need		you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	think speech: other	present · perfect · passive			twice property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	consent	gerund				vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	marry	to-infinitive		King		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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