The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 81
But the third time you must say, “Shame on you thus to smite the beloved of mine heart.
Who acts: third time, you · What happens: say, smite · To what, where: Shame, heart · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third time, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 say | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 say | nsubj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 say | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | aux |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Shame | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Shame | punct |
| 10 | Shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 say | obj |
| 11 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 15 smite | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 smite | nsubj |
| 13 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 15 smite | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 smite | mark |
| 15 | smite | smite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 Shame | acl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 beloved | det |
| 17 | beloved | beloved | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heart | nmod:poss |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 mine | case |
| 19 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 beloved | nmod |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 smite | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | must | the third time | Shame | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent shame=Topic | ||||
| 2 | smite in a quote | to-infinitive | you | the beloved of mine's heart | thus property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus heart=Experiencer |
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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