The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 180

I am certainly much too pretty to be their water carrier!’

Who acts: I · What happens: be · To what, where: water carrier

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 carrier	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 carrier	cop
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	6 pretty	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 pretty	advmod
6	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	11 carrier	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	11 carrier	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 carrier	cop
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 carrier	nmod:poss
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carrier	compound
11	carrier	carrier	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 carrier	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 carrier	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	gypsies's water carrier				pretty 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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