The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 15

‘My faith!’ cried Tubby; ‘do you want to marry a negress, and give me grandchildren as ugly as monkeys and as stupid as owls?’

Who acts: faith, you · What happens: cry, want, marry, give · To what, where: negress, grandchildren, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (faith, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 faith	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 faith	nmod:poss
3	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 faith	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 faith	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Tubby	Tubby	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cried	flat
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 want	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 want	punct
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 want	aux
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 want	nsubj
12	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cried	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 marry	mark
14	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 want	xcomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 negress	det
16	negress	negress	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 marry	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 give	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 give	cc
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 marry	conj
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 give	iobj
21	grandchildren	grandchild	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 give	obj
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 ugly	advmod
23	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 give	advcl
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 monkeys	case
25	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 ugly	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 stupid	cc
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 stupid	advmod
28	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ugly	conj
29	as	as	ADP	_	30 owls	case
30	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 stupid	obl
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 want	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	My faith			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want	present · do-support	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	a negress		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent negress=Patient
4	give	infinitive	you not said here	grandchildren	me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient grandchild=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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