The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 48
‘No,’ replied Renelde, ‘there must be no blood on my bridal bouquet.
Who acts: Renelde · What happens: reply, be · To what, where: bridal bouquet
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Renelde), 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 | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Renelde | Renelde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bouquet | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 bouquet | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 be | expl |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 be | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 bouquet | cop |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 blood | det |
| 13 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 be | nsubj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 bouquet | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 bouquet | nmod:poss |
| 16 | bridal | bridal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bouquet | amod |
| 17 | bouquet | bouquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Renelde | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | my bridal bouquet | 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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