The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 22
‘How dare you contradict me!’ said her stepmother; ‘be off with you at once, and don’t show your face again till you have filled the basket with strawberries.’
Who acts: you, stepmother · What happens: contradict off, say, not show, fill · To what, where: me, face, basket · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, stepmother), 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 | _ | 5 contradict | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 contradict | advmod |
| 3 | dare | dare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 contradict | compound |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 contradict | nsubj |
| 5 | contradict | contradict | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 contradict | obj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 contradict | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 contradict | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 contradict | conj |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 off | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 off | punct |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 off | cop |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 contradict | compound:prt |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 contradict | obl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 once | case |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 contradict | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 show | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 show | cc |
| 22 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 show | aux |
| 23 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 show | advmod |
| 24 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 contradict | parataxis |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 face | nmod:poss |
| 26 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 show | obj |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 show | advmod |
| 28 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 31 filled | mark |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 filled | nsubj |
| 30 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 filled | aux |
| 31 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 show | ccomp |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 basket | det |
| 33 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 filled | obj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 strawberries | case |
| 35 | strawberries | strawberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 basket | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 contradict | punct |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 contradict | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contradict off | present | you | me | with you | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Heaven's stepmother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not show | infinitive · do-support | your face | again | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent face=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | fill | present · perfect | you | the basket | with strawberries | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent basket=Patient with strawberry=Instrument |
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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