The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 76
Then the girl said to herself: ‘If that is all I am quite sure I can free my brothers.’
Who acts: girl, all · What happens: say, be · To what, where: girl · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (girl, all), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 herself | case |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 sure | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 all | punct |
| 9 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 all | mark |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 all | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 all | cop |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 sure | nsubj |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 sure | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sure | cop |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 sure | advmod |
| 16 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 free | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 free | aux |
| 19 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sure | parataxis |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 21 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 free | nsubj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 sure | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the girl | girl | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is | present | all | sure 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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