More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 65
But think you I'm such a fool as to take on me a long and wearisome journey and all for a silly dream.
Who acts: I · What happens: think, be, take on · To what, where: you, fool, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 think | cc |
| 2 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 think | obj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 fool | nsubj |
| 5 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fool | cop |
| 6 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 fool | det:predet |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fool | det |
| 8 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 think | ccomp |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 take | mark |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 take | mark |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 fool | acl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 take | compound:prt |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 take | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 journey | det |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 journey | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wearisome | cc |
| 17 | wearisome | wearisome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 long | conj |
| 18 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 all | cc |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 fool | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 dream | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 dream | det |
| 23 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 dream | amod |
| 24 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 all | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot you=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | I | such fool | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take on | to-infinitive | me | 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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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