The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 74
He said, ‘She is too sweet and good to do such a thing as that.
Who acts: king, mother · What happens: say, be, do · To what, where: thing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, mother), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sweet | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 sweet | punct |
| 5 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sweet | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sweet | cop |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 sweet | advmod |
| 8 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 said | ccomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 good | cc |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sweet | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 good | acl |
| 13 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 thing | det:predet |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 thing | det |
| 15 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | obj |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 that | case |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 thing | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | mother | sweet property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | mother not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | such thing | as that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
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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