The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 143

‘How is it, good mother, that you are so much harder to pull up than the young Prince?

Who acts: course, you · What happens: be, pull up · To what, where: good mother

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (course, 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	_	7 mother	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 mother	advmod
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 mother	cop
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 mother	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mother	punct
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mother	amod
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 harder	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 harder	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 harder	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 harder	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 much	advmod
13	much	much	ADV	_	14 harder	advmod
14	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 mother	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 pull	mark
16	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 harder	xcomp
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 pull	compound:prt
18	than	than	ADP	_	21 Prince	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Prince	det
20	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Prince	amod
21	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 pull	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 mother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	course	good mother		tree rules
2	is	present	you		hard property	tree rules
3	pull up	to-infinitive	you not said here		than the young Prince	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=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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