The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 18
‘She shall be the prettiest girl that ever was, and fair and bright as the day,’ said the first head.
Who acts: head, prettiest girl · What happens: be, say · To what, where: prettiest girl · 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 (head, prettiest girl), 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 | _ | 7 girl | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 girl | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 girl | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 girl | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 6 | prettiest | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 girl | amod |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | nsubj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 fair | nsubj |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 fair | advmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fair | cop |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fair | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fair | cc |
| 13 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girl | acl:relcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bright | cc |
| 15 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fair | conj |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 day | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 day | det |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fair | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 girl | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 girl | punct |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 head | det |
| 23 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 head | amod |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | nsubj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | shall | head | the prettiest girl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the prettiest girl | ever; day | fair property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | be | the prettiest girl not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the prettiest girl | 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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