The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 66

‘If my brother says that, I must do it, but Heaven knows how unwilling I am to throw thee out, Little Snow!’ said she.

Who acts: brother, I, Heaven · What happens: say, do, know, be, throw out · To what, where: dog, thee · 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, Heaven), 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	_	5 says	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 says	mark
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 brother	nmod:poss
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 do	mark
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 that	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	ccomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 knows	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 knows	cc
14	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 knows	nsubj
15	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 said	ccomp
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 unwilling	advmod
17	unwilling	unwilling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 knows	obj
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 unwilling	nsubj
19	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 unwilling	cop
20	to	to	PART	_	21 throw	mark
21	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 unwilling	advcl
22	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	21 throw	obj
23	out	out	ADP	_	21 throw	compound:prt
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Snow	punct
25	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Snow	amod
26	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 throw	obl
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 unwilling	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 knows	punct
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 says	ccomp
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 said	nsubj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	dog		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	know	present	Heaven			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	present	I		unwilling property	tree rules
5	throw out	to-infinitive	I not said here	thee	Little Snow obl	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past	Heaven			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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