The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 209

‘What!’ cried the sly Titty, ‘they are coming with great pomp to fetch you, and you are not afraid to show yourself to so many fine lords and ladies with your hair down like that?

Who acts: gypsies, you · What happens: cry, come, fetch, not be, show down · To what, where: sly Titty, you, yourself

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 (gypsies, 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	_	5 cried	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 cried	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Titty	det
7	sly	sly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Titty	amod
8	Titty	Titty	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 coming	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 coming	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 coming	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 coming	aux
13	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 cried	advcl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 pomp	case
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pomp	amod
16	pomp	pomp	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 coming	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 fetch	mark
18	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 coming	advcl
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 fetch	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 afraid	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 afraid	cc
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 afraid	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 afraid	cop
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 afraid	advmod
25	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cried	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 show	mark
27	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 afraid	xcomp
28	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 show	iobj
29	to	to	PART	_	33 lords	mark
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 many	advmod
31	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 lords	amod
32	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 lords	amod
33	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 show	ccomp
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 ladies	cc
35	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 lords	conj
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 hair	case
37	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 hair	nmod:poss
38	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 show	obl
39	down	down	ADP	_	27 show	compound:prt
40	like	like	ADP	_	41 that	case
41	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 show	obl
42	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past		the sly Titty			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent titty=Topic
2	come	present · progressive	gypsies = gypsy			with great pomp	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fetch	to-infinitive	gypsies = gypsy not said here	you			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	not is	present	you			afraid property	tree rules
5	show down	to-infinitive	you not said here		yourself	with your hair; like that	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent yourself=Recipient

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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