The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 6
‘In that case,’ said the Enchanter, touching her, ‘you had better become a particular kind of creature that is neither fish nor fowl; you shall be light and airy, and as green as the grass you live in.
Who acts: Enchanter, you, that · What happens: say, touch, have, become, be, live in · To what, where: case, Enchanter, particular kind, fish, grass · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Enchanter, you, that), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 case | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 case | det |
| 4 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 case | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Enchanter | det |
| 9 | Enchanter | Enchanter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 touching | punct |
| 11 | touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 touching | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 17 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 had | xcomp |
| 18 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 had | xcomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 kind | det |
| 20 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 kind | amod |
| 21 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 become | xcomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 creature | case |
| 23 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 kind | nmod |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 fish | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 fish | cop |
| 26 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 27 fish | cc:preconj |
| 27 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 creature | parataxis |
| 28 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 29 fowl | cc |
| 29 | fowl | fowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fish | conj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 light | punct |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 light | nsubj |
| 32 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 light | aux |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 light | cop |
| 34 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | parataxis |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 airy | cc |
| 36 | airy | airy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 light | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 green | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 green | cc |
| 39 | as | as | ADV | _ | 40 green | advmod |
| 40 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 light | conj |
| 41 | as | as | ADP | _ | 43 grass | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 grass | det |
| 43 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 green | obl |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 live | nsubj |
| 45 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 grass | acl:relcl |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 live | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Enchanter | that case | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in case=Manner | ||||
| 2 | touch | gerund | the Enchanter not said here | Enchanter | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | you | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | become | infinitive | you not said here | a particular kind of creature | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | that | fish nor fowl | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | shall | you | light property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be | you not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | be | you not said here | as the grass | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | live in | present | you | the grass not said here | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme grass=Location |
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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