The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 60
‘Well, if my brother says so, I must do it,’ said the man’s daughter, and she flung her casket into the sea.
Who acts: brother, I, daughter · What happens: say, do, fling · To what, where: casket, sea · 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 (brother, I, daughter), 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 says | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 says | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 says | mark |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 says | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 do | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 says | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 man | case |
| 20 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 flung | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 flung | cc |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 flung | nsubj |
| 24 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | conj |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 casket | nmod:poss |
| 26 | casket | casket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 flung | obj |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 sea | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 sea | det |
| 29 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 flung | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | my brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do | must | I | casket | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the man's daughter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fling | past | daughter | daughter's casket | the sea | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent casket=Theme into sea=Destination |
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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