The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 124

And because she was so young and pretty the Huntsman had pity on her, and said:

Who acts: SNOWDROP, Huntsman · What happens: be, have, say · To what, where: pity · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (SNOWDROP, Huntsman), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 young	cc
2	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 young	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 young	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 young	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 young	advmod
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 said	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 had	cc
8	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	11 had	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Huntsman	det
10	Huntsman	Huntsman	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 young	conj
12	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	SNOWDROP		young property	tree rules
2	have	past	the Huntsman	pity	on SNOWDROP; pretty property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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