The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 97
It’s a pretty little revenge to keep them like that.’
Who acts: end · What happens: be, keep · To what, where: little revenge, creatures
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 (end), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 revenge | nsubj |
| 2 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 revenge | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 revenge | det |
| 4 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 5 little | advmod |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 revenge | amod |
| 6 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 keep | mark |
| 8 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 revenge | acl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 keep | obj |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 that | case |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 keep | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 revenge | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | SYM | _ | 6 revenge | discourse |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | end | a little revenge | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | creatures = creature | like a little revenge | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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