The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 68

‘What a wicked little girl you are!’ said he; ‘but you shall be none the better of this.

Who acts: wicked little girl, you · What happens: say, be · To what, where: none · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked little girl, you), 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 girl	punct
2	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	6 girl	det
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 girl	det
4	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 girl	amod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 girl	amod
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 are	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 girl	acl:relcl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 girl	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 girl	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 none	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 none	cc
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 none	nsubj
17	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 none	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 none	cop
19	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	11 said	ccomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 better	det
21	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 none	amod
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 this	case
23	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 better	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	what wicked little girl						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	shall	you	none					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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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