The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 26

‘Well,’ says the hen-wife, ‘it is because you are so stupid that you don’t observe or find out those affairs that are so dangerous and hurtful to yourself and your child.’

Who acts: reason, you, affairs · What happens: say, be, not observe, find out · To what, where: hen wife, affairs, yourself · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reason, you, affairs), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 says	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wife	det
7	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wife	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 hen	punct
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stupid	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 stupid	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 stupid	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 stupid	cop
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 stupid	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 stupid	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 stupid	cop
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 stupid	advmod
18	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 says	ccomp
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 observe	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 observe	nsubj
21	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 observe	aux
22	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 observe	advmod
23	observe	observe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 stupid	advcl
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 find	cc
25	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 observe	conj
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 find	compound:prt
27	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 affairs	det
28	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 find	obj
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 dangerous	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 dangerous	cop
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 dangerous	advmod
32	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 affairs	acl:relcl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 hurtful	cc
34	hurtful	hurtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 dangerous	conj
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 yourself	case
36	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 hurtful	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 child	cc
38	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 child	nmod:poss
39	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 yourself	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		the hen wife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wife=Topic
2	is	present	reason			stupid property	tree rules
3	not observe	present · do-support	you				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	find out	infinitive	you not said here	that affairs			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affair=Topic
5	is	present	that affairs			dangerous property	tree rules
6	be		that affairs not said here		yourself		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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