The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 17
‘If you can’t, I think your daughter is mine.’
Who acts: I, daughter · What happens: think, be · To what, where: mine · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (I, daughter), 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 | _ | 8 think | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 n’t | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 n’t | nsubj |
| 4 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 n’t | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 think | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 n’t | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 think | nsubj |
| 8 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mine | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 mine | cop |
| 12 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 think | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 think | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | your daughter | mine | tree rules |
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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