The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 202

‘Depend upon it, the old peddler wife was none other than the old Queen.

Who acts: you, old peddler wife · What happens: depend, be · To what, where: none

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 (you, old peddler wife), 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	_	2 Depend	punct
2	Depend	depend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Depend	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 none	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wife	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wife	amod
8	peddler	peddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wife	compound
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 none	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 none	cop
11	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	2 Depend	conj
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 none	amod
13	than	than	ADP	_	16 Queen	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Queen	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Queen	amod
16	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 other	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Depend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	depend	imperative	you not said here					upon life	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the old peddler wife	none					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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