The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 70

First, I shall say, “Ugly are you, but you shall become so ugly that there will not be an uglier one on earth.”

Who acts: I, you · What happens: say, be, become · To what, where: ugly uglier one, earth · 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 (I, 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 say	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 First	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 are	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 are	punct
8	Ugly	ugly	ADV	_	9 are	advmod
9	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 are	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 become	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 become	cc
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 become	nsubj
14	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 become	aux
15	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	conj
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 ugly	advmod
17	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 one	amod
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 be	mark
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 be	expl
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 be	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 be	advmod
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 one	cop
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 one	det
24	uglier	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 one	amod
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 become	xcomp
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 earth	case
27	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 one	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	shall	I			first property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	does in a quote	present	you			ugly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	become in a quote	shall	you				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	is a in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	a ugly uglier one	earth		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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