The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 16

‘Yes, I will kiss you,’ said the man’s daughter, and she did it, but she thought it was the worst bit of work that she had ever had to do in her life.

Who acts: I, daughter, work, that · What happens: kiss, say, do, think, be, have · To what, where: you, work, worst bit, that, life · 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 (I, daughter, work, that), 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	_	6 kiss	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 kiss	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 kiss	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 kiss	aux
6	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 kiss	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 kiss	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 kiss	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 daughter	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 man	case
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 did	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 did	cc
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 did	nsubj
18	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 did	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 thought	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 thought	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 thought	nsubj
23	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 bit	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 bit	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bit	det
27	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 bit	amod
28	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 thought	ccomp
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 work	case
30	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bit	nmod
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 had	obj
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 had	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 had	aux
34	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	35 had	advmod
35	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 bit	parataxis
36	to	to	PART	_	37 do	mark
37	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 had	xcomp
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 life	case
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 life	nmod:poss
40	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 do	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	future	I	you				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the man's daughter					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	past	daughter	work				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	think speech: other	past	daughter					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	work	the worst bit			of work	tree rules
6	have	past · perfect	daughter	that		ever		tree rules
7	do	to-infinitive	that not said here		daughter's life			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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