The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 75
You ought to be thinking all the time how happy you are.’
Who acts: You · What happens: think, be · 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 (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 thinking | nsubj |
| 2 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 thinking | aux |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 thinking | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thinking | aux |
| 5 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 time | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thinking | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 happy | advmod |
| 10 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thinking | ccomp |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 happy | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 happy | cop |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thinking | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 thinking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | ought · progressive | You | time | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | you | happy property | 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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