The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 100
Indeed, when she humbly asked for some he said mockingly that it was too sweet for her, and would spoil her teeth.
Who acts: Princess, voice, honey · What happens: ask, say, be, spoil · To what, where: teeth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, voice, honey), 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 10 said | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 asked | advmod |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | humbly | humbly | ADV | _ | 6 asked | advmod |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | advcl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 some | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 asked | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | mockingly | mockingly | ADV | _ | 10 said | advmod |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 sweet | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sweet | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sweet | cop |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 sweet | advmod |
| 16 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sweet | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 spoil | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 spoil | cc |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 spoil | aux |
| 22 | spoil | spoil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | conj |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 24 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 spoil | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Princess | for some; humbly property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | voice | indeed, mockingly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | honey | for Princess; sweet property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | spoil | would | voice not said here | Princess's teeth | 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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