The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 85

If she is deaf and can’t speak, she might at least laugh; depend upon it, those who don’t laugh have a bad conscience.’

Who acts: Queen, those · What happens: be, not speak, laugh, depend, not laugh, have · To what, where: least, bad conscience · 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, those), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 deaf	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 deaf	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 deaf	cop
4	deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 laugh	advcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 speak	cc
6	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 speak	aux
7	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 speak	advmod
8	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 deaf	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 deaf	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 laugh	nsubj
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 laugh	aux
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 least	case
13	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 laugh	obl
14	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 depend	punct
16	depend	depend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 laugh	conj
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 depend	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
20	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	25 have	nsubj
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 laugh	nsubj
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 laugh	aux
23	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 laugh	advmod
24	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 those	acl:relcl
25	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 depend	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 conscience	det
27	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 conscience	amod
28	conscience	conscience	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 have	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 laugh	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 laugh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	present	Queen			deaf property	tree rules
2	not speak speech: other	can	Queen not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	laugh	might	Queen		least		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	depend	infinitive	Queen not said here			upon maid	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	not laugh	present · do-support					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	have	present	those	a bad conscience			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conscience=Patient

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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