The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 63
And when she had convinced herself that this was so, she stepped forward, and, full of wrath over the quarrels and feuds Parsley’s beauty gave rise to, she cursed the girl and said, ‘I wish you were an ugly toad, sitting under a bridge at the other end of the world.’
Who acts: Parsley, this, beauty, I, you, ugly toad · What happens: convince, be, step forward, give, curse, say · To what, where: Parsley, rise, girl, ugly toad, bridge · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parsley, this, beauty, I), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 convinced | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 convinced | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 convinced | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 convinced | aux |
| 5 | convinced | convince | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 convinced | obj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 so | mark |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 so | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 so | cop |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 convinced | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stepped | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stepped | nsubj |
| 13 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 so | parataxis |
| 14 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 13 stepped | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 full | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 full | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 full | punct |
| 18 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stepped | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 wrath | case |
| 20 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 full | obl |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 quarrels | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 quarrels | det |
| 23 | quarrels | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 full | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 feuds | cc |
| 25 | feuds | feud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 quarrels | conj |
| 26 | Parsley | Parsley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 Parsley | case |
| 28 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 gave | nsubj |
| 29 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 quarrels | acl:relcl |
| 30 | rise | rise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 gave | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 rise | fixed |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 cursed | punct |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 cursed | nsubj |
| 34 | cursed | curse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 stepped | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 girl | det |
| 36 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 cursed | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 said | cc |
| 38 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 cursed | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 toad | punct |
| 40 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 47 toad | punct |
| 41 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 wish | nsubj |
| 42 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 toad | parataxis |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 47 toad | nsubj |
| 44 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 toad | cop |
| 45 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 toad | det |
| 46 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 toad | amod |
| 47 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 said | ccomp |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 sitting | punct |
| 49 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 47 toad | acl |
| 50 | under | under | ADP | _ | 52 bridge | case |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 bridge | det |
| 52 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 sitting | obl |
| 53 | at | at | ADP | _ | 56 end | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 end | det |
| 55 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 end | amod |
| 56 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 sitting | obl |
| 57 | of | of | ADP | _ | 59 world | case |
| 58 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 world | det |
| 59 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 end | nmod |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 convinced | punct |
| 61 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 convinced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | convince | past · perfect | Parsley | Parsley | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | this | so property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | step forward | past | Parsley | forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | give | past | Parsley's beauty | rise | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rise=Theme | ||||
| 5 | curse | past | Parsley | the girl | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | Parsley not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 8 | is a | past | you | a ugly toad | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | sit | gerund | a ugly toad not said here | a bridge | at the other end of the world | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under bridge=Location |
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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