The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 48

‘Now you can see that it is fated that she should be mine,’ he said to the King.

Who acts: you, flame, Princess, Dapplegrim · What happens: see, be, say · 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 (you, flame, Princess, Dapplegrim), 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 see	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 see	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 fated	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fated	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fated	cop
9	fated	fated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 see	ccomp
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 mine	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 mine	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 mine	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 mine	cop
14	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 fated	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 King	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 King	det
21	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 said	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	can	you		now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	flame			fated property	tree rules
3	is a	should	Princess	mine			tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	Dapplegrim			to the King	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to king=Experiencer clause=Topic

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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