Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 112
"I see, my dear," said the Baronin; "but it will do you no harm if your hair does curl, if you are a good little girl."
Who acts: Baronin, hair, you · What happens: see, say, do, be · To what, where: you, curl, good little girl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Baronin, hair, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dear | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 dear | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 see | compound |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Baronin | det |
| 11 | Baronin | Baronin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 but | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 do | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 do | obj |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 harm | det |
| 20 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 do | obj |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 does | mark |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hair | nmod:poss |
| 23 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 does | nsubj |
| 24 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | advcl |
| 25 | curl | curl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 does | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 girl | punct |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 girl | mark |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 girl | nsubj |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 girl | cop |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 girl | det |
| 31 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 girl | amod |
| 32 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 girl | amod |
| 33 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 curl | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | the Baronin = baronin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Baronin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | future | Baronin | you | no harm obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | your hair | curl and a good little girl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curl=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | a good little girl | 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: «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (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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