The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 29
‘Don’t worry about that,’ replied the girl, ‘for I’ve thought it all over, and have settled on a plan which will make us each able to bear with the other!
Who acts: I, plan, us · What happens: not worry, reply, have, think, settle, make · To what, where: girl, feeling, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, plan, us), 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 | _ | 4 worry | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 worry | aux |
| 3 | n’t | n't | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 worry | aux |
| 4 | worry | worry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 that | case |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 worry | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 worry | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 worry | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thought | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 thought | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 ’ve | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 ’ve | nsubj |
| 16 | ’ve | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 thought | advcl |
| 17 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 thought | obj |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 over | advmod |
| 20 | over | over | ADV | _ | 17 thought | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 settled | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 settled | cc |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 settled | aux |
| 24 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 replied | conj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 plan | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 plan | det |
| 27 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 settled | obl |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 make | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 make | aux |
| 30 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 plan | acl:relcl |
| 31 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 make | obj |
| 32 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 able | det |
| 33 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 make | xcomp |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 bear | mark |
| 35 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 able | xcomp |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 other | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 other | det |
| 38 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 bear | obl |
| 39 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not worry | infinitive · do-support | about that | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about that=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the girl | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | present | I | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | feeling | over property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | settle | present · perfect | on a plan | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on plan=Topic | |||||
| 6 | make | future | a plan | us | able property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset we=Product | |||
| 7 | bear | to-infinitive | us not said here | with the other | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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