The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 90
‘Now I shall never come again,’ she said, and then she turned to go.
Who acts: I, bride · What happens: not come, say, turn, go · 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 (I, bride), 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 | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 come | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 come | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 come | advmod |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 come | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 turned | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 turned | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 turned | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 turned | nsubj |
| 16 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 go | mark |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 turned | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come | shall | I | now; again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | bride | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | turn | past | bride | then | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | bride not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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