The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 43
‘She’s surely more money than wit to throw gold about like that,’ said her stepsister, but in her secret heart she was very jealous, and determined that she too would go to the wood and look for strawberries.
Who acts: first, more money · What happens: be, throw, say, determine, go, look · To what, where: more money, gold, stepsister, secret heart, wood · 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, more money), 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 money | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 money | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 money | cop |
| 4 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 6 money | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 money | amod |
| 6 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 wit | case |
| 8 | wit | wit | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 throw | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 throw | mark |
| 10 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 money | parataxis |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 throw | obj |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 throw | advmod |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 that | case |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 throw | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 money | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 money | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 stepsister | nmod:poss |
| 19 | stepsister | stepsister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 jealous | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 jealous | cc |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 heart | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 heart | nmod:poss |
| 24 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 heart | amod |
| 25 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 jealous | obl |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 jealous | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 jealous | cop |
| 28 | very | very | ADV | _ | 29 jealous | advmod |
| 29 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 said | ccomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 determined | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 determined | cc |
| 32 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | conj |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 go | mark |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 go | nsubj |
| 35 | too | too | ADV | _ | 37 go | advmod |
| 36 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 go | aux |
| 37 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 determined | ccomp |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 wood | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 wood | det |
| 40 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 go | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 look | cc |
| 42 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 go | conj |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 strawberries | case |
| 44 | strawberries | strawberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 look | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | first | more money | surely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | throw | to-infinitive | gold | than wit; like that; about property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | more money | first's stepsister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stepsister=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is | past | first | first's secret heart | jealous property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | determine | past | more money not said here | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | go | would | first | the wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | look | infinitive | first not said here | for strawberries | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for strawberry=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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