The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 124

I know you are only trying to take me in,’ answered she; ‘and if I do let you serve me, is it fitting that you should be so much better dressed I am?

Who acts: I, you, penny · What happens: know, try, take in, answer, let, serve · To what, where: me, hag, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. 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, penny), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 trying	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 trying	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 trying	advmod
6	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 know	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 take	mark
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 trying	xcomp
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 take	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	8 take	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct
13	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 trying	parataxis
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 answered	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 let	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 let	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 let	cc
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 do	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 do	nsubj
20	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 let	aux
21	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 know	parataxis
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 let	obj
23	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 let	xcomp
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 serve	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fitting	punct
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 fitting	aux
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 fitting	nsubj
28	fitting	fit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 let	advcl
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 dressed	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 dressed	parataxis
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 better	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 better	cop
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 much	advmod
34	much	much	ADV	_	35 better	advmod
35	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 you	parataxis
36	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 fitting	advcl
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 dressed	obj
38	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 dressed	cop
39	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	know	present	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	try	present · progressive	you				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	take in not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		me		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
4	answer speech: assert	past			hag		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
5	let	present · do-support		you			tree rules
6	serve	infinitive	you not said here	me			vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Attribute
7	fit	present · progressive	penny				vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
8	is	should				good property	tree rules
9	is	present	penny not said here			dress property	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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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