The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 85

Two or three days later the master said to him: ‘The Porcelain Maiden is here: but, though she is as lovely as the dawn, she is so wicked that she scratches everyone that approaches her.

Who acts: master, Porcelain Maiden · What happens: say, be, scratch, approach · To what, where: man, everyone, master · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, Porcelain Maiden), 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 days	nummod
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 three	cc
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Two	conj
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 later	obl:unmarked
5	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 said	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 master	det
7	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 here	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 here	punct
13	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Maiden	det
14	Porcelain	Porcelain	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Maiden	compound
15	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 here	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 here	cop
17	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 said	ccomp
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 wicked	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 wicked	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 but	punct
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	25 lovely	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 lovely	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 lovely	cop
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 lovely	advmod
25	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 wicked	advcl
26	as	as	ADP	_	28 dawn	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 dawn	det
28	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lovely	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lovely	punct
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 wicked	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 wicked	cop
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 wicked	advmod
33	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	parataxis
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 scratches	mark
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 scratches	nsubj
36	scratches	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 wicked	advcl
37	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	36 scratches	obj
38	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 approaches	nsubj
39	approaches	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 everyone	acl:relcl
40	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 approaches	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the master		man		late property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
2	is	present	the Porcelain Maiden				here property	tree rules
3	is	present	master			dawn	lovely property	tree rules
4	is	present	master				wicked property	tree rules
5	scratch	present	master	everyone				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Theme
6	approach	present		master				vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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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