The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 49

But the youth told him that she was his sister, and that he had painted her, and that if she was not prettier than the picture she was at all events not uglier.

Who acts: youth, woman, King · What happens: tell, be, paint, not be · To what, where: King, sister, woman, picture, events · 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 (youth, woman, King), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 told	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 sister	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sister	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sister	cop
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sister	nmod:poss
10	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 painted	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 painted	cc
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 painted	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 painted	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 painted	aux
16	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 told	parataxis
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 painted	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 prettier	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 prettier	cc
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 prettier	mark
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 prettier	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 prettier	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 prettier	cop
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 prettier	advmod
25	prettier	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 told	conj
26	than	than	ADP	_	28 picture	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 picture	det
28	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 prettier	obl
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 uglier	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 uglier	cop
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 events	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 events	det
33	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 uglier	obl
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 uglier	advmod
35	uglier	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 picture	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the youth		King			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is a	past	woman	King's sister				tree rules
3	paint	past · perfect	King	woman				vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	not is a condition, not said to happen	past	woman				than the picture; pretty property	tree rules
5	not is	past	woman	the picture not said here		all events	ugly property	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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