The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 227

‘It is not her fault, after all, that she has grown so ugly, it is mine.

Who acts: milk, witch · What happens: not be, grow, be · To what, where: fault, mine

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 (milk, witch), 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	_	6 fault	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fault	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fault	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 fault	advmod
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fault	nmod:poss
6	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 all	punct
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 fault	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 grown	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 grown	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 grown	nsubj
13	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 grown	aux
14	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 all	conj
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 ugly	advmod
16	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 grown	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 all	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 mine	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 mine	cop
20	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 all	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fault	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	milk	witch's fault		tree rules
2	grow	present · perfect	witch		ugly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present	milk	mine		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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