The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 84
‘She is only a low-born beggar maid that you have married; who knows what mischief she is up to?
Who acts: Queen, born beggar maid · What happens: bear, be, marry, know · To what, where: born beggar maid · 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 (Queen, born beggar maid), 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 | _ | 10 maid | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 maid | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 maid | cop |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 maid | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 maid | det |
| 6 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 born | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 low | punct |
| 8 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 maid | amod |
| 9 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 maid | compound |
| 10 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 married | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 married | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 married | aux |
| 14 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 maid | acl:relcl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 knows | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 knows | nsubj |
| 17 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 maid | parataxis |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 up | nsubj |
| 19 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 up | nsubj |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 up | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 up | cop |
| 22 | up | up | ADV | _ | 17 knows | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 up | fixed |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 maid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | Queen | a born beggar maid | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | marry | present · perfect · passive | a born beggar maid | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | know | present | a born beggar maid | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | present | up 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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