The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 36
The first said: ‘Every day she shall grow prettier.’
Who acts: first · What happens: say, grow · 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 (first), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 first | det |
| 2 | first | first | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 grow | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 grow | punct |
| 6 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grow | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 grow | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 grow | aux |
| 10 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 11 | prettier | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 grow | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 grow | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the first | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | grow | shall | first | day | pretty property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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