The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 210
‘This time,’ she said to herself, ‘I will think of something that will make an end of her once and for all.’
Who acts: SNOWDROP, I · What happens: say, think, make · To what, where: SNOWDROP, end · 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, I), 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 | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 herself | case |
| 9 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 think | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 think | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 think | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 think | aux |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 something | case |
| 16 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 think | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 make | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 make | aux |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 something | acl:relcl |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 end | det |
| 21 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 make | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 end | nmod |
| 24 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 19 make | advmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 all | cc |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 all | case |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 once | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 think | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | SNOWDROP | SNOWDROP | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to herself=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | future | I | of something | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | make | future | a end of SNOWDROP | once property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset end=Product |
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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